'Privacy' definitions:
Definition of 'privacy'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others [syn: privacy, privateness, seclusion]
noun
Definition of 'Privacy'
From: GCIDE
- Privacy \Pri"va*cy\, n.; pl. Privacies. [See Private.]
- 1. The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement. [1913 Webster]
- Her sacred privacies all open lie. --Rowe. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Concealment of what is said or done. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A private matter; a secret. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- 5. See Privity, 2. [Obs.] --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'privacy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adytum,
- alienation,
- aloneness,
- aloofness,
- anonymity,
- apartheid,
- apartness,
- ashram,
- celibacy,
- cell,
- clandestineness,
- cloister,
- closed meeting,
- concealment,
- confidentiality,
- confidentialness,
- covertness,
- den,
- detachment,
- executive session,
- hermitage,
- hideaway,
- hideout,
- hiding place,
- holy of holies,
- incognito,
- isolation,
- isolationism,
- ivory tower,
- Jim Crow,
- keeping apart,
- lair,
- loneliness,
- loneness,
- lonesomeness,
- mew,
- monasticism,
- moving apart,
- private conference,
- privatism,
- privatization,
- quarantine,
- recess,
- reclusion,
- retirement,
- retreat,
- rustication,
- sanctum,
- sanctum sanctorum,
- seclusion,
- secrecy,
- secret place,
- secretiveness,
- segregation,
- separateness,
- separation,
- sequestration,
- single blessedness,
- solitariness,
- solitude,
- splendid isolation,
- surreptitiousness,
- withdrawal