'Secrecy' definitions:
Definition of 'secrecy'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Secrecy'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The Lady Anne, Whom the king hath in secrecy long married. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is concealed; a secret. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Seclusion; privacy; retirement. "The pensive secrecy of desert cell." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The quality of being secretive; fidelity to a secret; forbearance of disclosure or discovery. [1913 Webster]
- It is not with public as with private prayer; in this, rather secrecy is commanded than outward show. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'secrecy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- apartheid,
- apartness,
- burial,
- burying,
- censorship,
- clandestineness,
- clouding,
- concealedness,
- concealment,
- confidentiality,
- confidentially,
- covering,
- covering up,
- covertly,
- covertness,
- darkening,
- deception,
- detachment,
- disappearance,
- furtively,
- furtiveness,
- hiddenness,
- hiding,
- hugger-mugger,
- hugger-muggery,
- hush,
- hush-hush,
- immateriality,
- imperceptibility,
- indiscernibility,
- interment,
- invisibility,
- isolation,
- isolationism,
- Jim Crow,
- masking,
- mysteriously,
- mystery,
- mystification,
- nonappearance,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- occultation,
- privacy,
- privately,
- privatism,
- privatization,
- putting away,
- quarantine,
- recess,
- reclusion,
- retirement,
- retreat,
- rustication,
- screening,
- seclusion,
- secretion,
- secretively,
- secretiveness,
- secretly,
- secretness,
- segregation,
- separation,
- sequestration,
- silence,
- sneakily,
- splendid isolation,
- stealth,
- stealthily,
- subterfuge,
- suppression,
- surreptitiously,
- surreptitiousness,
- the invisible,
- the unseen,
- uncommunicativeness,
- unperceivability,
- unseeableness,
- unsubstantiality,
- viewlessness,
- withdrawal