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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Secrecy \Se"cre*cy\, noun; 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. --Shak.
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. --Hooker.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
secrecy
noun
1: the trait of keeping things secret [syn: {secretiveness}, {silence}]
2: the condition of being concealed or hidden [syn: {privacy}, {privateness}, {concealment}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "secrecy": Jim Crow, 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, 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
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