Why “fugitivity” is a great word
FUGITIVITY — [Noun] The state or condition of being a fugitive, characterized by sustained evasion and the constant pressure of pursuit. From fugitive (from Latin fugitivus, "fleeing", from fugere, "to flee") + the noun-forming suffix -ity. Unlike "escape," which denotes a singular act of liberation, or "exile," which implies a formal, if sorrowful, settled absence, fugitivity is the perpetual, unsecured present tense of flight. It is the smell of damp earth beneath a railway trestle at dawn, the ache of muscles tensed for a sound at the door, and the hallucinatory clarity of headlights in a rearview mirror—a life defined not by where it is going, but by the tense, endless act of not being caught.