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SECRETIVENESS

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• SECRETIVENESS (noun)
The noun SECRETIVENESS has 2 senses:

1. characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)
2. the trait of keeping things secret

Familiarity information: SECRETIVENESS used as a noun is rare.

• SECRETIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

secretiveness; closeness

Hypernyms ("secretiveness" is a kind of...):

unsociability; unsociableness (an unsociable disposition; avoiding friendship or companionship)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "secretiveness"):

furtiveness; sneakiness; stealthiness (a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

The trait of keeping things secret

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

secrecy; secretiveness; silence

Hypernyms ("secretiveness" is a kind of...):

uncommunicativeness (the trait of being uncommunicative)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "secretiveness"):

mum (secrecy)

"Desperate diseases must have desperate cures."
(English proverb)
"That which is obvious does not need to be explained."
(Afghanistan proverb)
"The idea came after the drunkness passed away."
(Arabic proverb)
"Better safe than sorry."
(Croatian proverb)

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Meaning of unsociability
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Meaning of mum
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