secrecy

[Se·cre*cy]

Secrecy is a word for a state or condition where things are concealed or hidden. CIA agents and conspirators know a lot about secrecy.

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The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy.

Noun
the trait of keeping things secret

Noun
the condition of being concealed or hidden


n.
The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy.

n.
That which is concealed; a secret.

n.
Seclusion; privacy; retirement.

n.
The quality of being secretive; fidelity to a secret; forbearance of disclosure or discovery.


Secrecy

Se"cre*cy , n.; pl. Secrecies . [From Secret.] 1. The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy.
The Lady Anne, Whom the king hath in secrecy long married.
2. That which is concealed; a secret. [R.] Shak. 3. Seclusion; privacy; retirement. "The pensive secrecy of desert cell." Milton. 4. The quality of being secretive; fidelity to a secret; forbearance of disclosure or discovery.
It is not with public as with private prayer; in this, rather secrecy is commanded than outward show.

The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy.

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Usage Examples

Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

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