'Concealment' definitions:
Definition of 'concealment'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
A covering that serves to conceal or shelter something; "a screen of trees afforded privacy"; "under cover of darkness"; "the brush provided a covert for game"; "the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background" [syn: screen, cover, covert, concealment]
noun
The activity of keeping something secret [syn: concealment, concealing, hiding]
Definition of 'Concealment'
From: GCIDE
- Concealment \Con*ceal"ment\, n. [OF. concelement.]
- 1. The act of concealing; the state of being concealed. [1913 Webster]
- But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Some dear cause Will in concealment wrap me up awhile. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A place of hiding; a secret place; a retreat frem observation. [1913 Webster]
- The cleft tree Offers its kind concealment to a few. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A secret; out of the way knowledge. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Well read in strange concealments. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Law) Suppression of such facts and circumstances as in justice ought to be made known. --Wharton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'concealment'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abri,
- air-raid shelter,
- airtight secrecy,
- asylum,
- bolt-hole,
- bomb shelter,
- bombproof,
- bunker,
- cache,
- cave,
- close secrecy,
- closeness,
- corner,
- cover,
- covert,
- coverture,
- cranny,
- crypticness,
- cubby,
- cubbyhole,
- cyclone cellar,
- dark corner,
- den,
- disappearance,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- dugout,
- earth,
- evasion,
- evasiveness,
- fallout shelter,
- foxhole,
- funk hole,
- hiddenness,
- hideaway,
- hideout,
- hidey hole,
- hiding,
- hiding place,
- hole,
- hugger-mugger,
- hugger-muggery,
- immateriality,
- imperceptibility,
- indiscernibility,
- invisibility,
- lair,
- niche,
- nonappearance,
- nook,
- recess,
- refuge,
- retreat,
- safety zone,
- sanctuary,
- secrecy,
- secret place,
- secretiveness,
- secretness,
- shelter,
- stash,
- storm cave,
- storm cellar,
- subterfuge,
- the dark,
- the invisible,
- the unseen,
- trench,
- uncommunicativeness,
- undercovert,
- unperceivability,
- unseeableness,
- unsubstantiality,
- viewlessness