elusion

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

elusion
    n 1: the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) [syn:
         {slip}, {elusion}, {eluding}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Elusion \E*lu"sion\, n. [LL. elusio, fr. L. eludere, elusum. See
   {Elude}.]
   Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a
   cheat; trickery.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

42 Moby Thesaurus words for "elusion":
      avoidance, avoiding reaction, buck-passing, circumvention,
      defense mechanism, dodge, duck, elusiveness, equivocation, escape,
      eschewal, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, foiling,
      forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, frustration,
      getting around, getting round, jink, neutrality, nonintervention,
      noninvolvement, outguessing, outmaneuvering, outwitting,
      passing the buck, prevention, refraining, runaround, shunning,
      shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidetracking, slip, the runaround,
      the slip, thwarting, zigzag