n. 引喻
a quality characterized by indirect reference
引喻
allusive 暗指的；引用典故的
It lacks allusiveness and distance.
它缺乏引喻和距离感。
This Brian De Palma movie about the notorious Betty Short murder case, from 1947, which was the basis for a 1987 novel by James Ellroy, suffers from rampant allusiveness to other movies set in Los Angeles.