secrecy

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: se=cre=cy
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

secrecy, n. [From Secret.].

•  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."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is concealed; a secret.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  Seclusion; privacy; retirement.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
•  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."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

secrecy, n.
1 the keeping of secrets as a fact, habit, or faculty.
2 a state in which all information is withheld (was done in great secrecy).

Idiom

sworn to secrecy having promised to keep a secret.

Etymology

ME f. secretie f. obs. secre (adj.) or SECRET adj.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

secrecy

Concealment

N concealment, hiding, occultation, mystification, seal of secrecy, screen, disguise, masquerade, masked battery, hiding place, cryptography, steganography, freemasonry, stealth, stealthiness, sneakiness, obreption, slyness, latitancy, latitation, seclusion, privacy, secrecy, secretness, incognita, reticence, reserve, mental reserve, reservation, arriere pensee, suppression, evasion, white lie, misprision, silence, suppression of truth, underhand dealing, closeness, secretiveness, mystery, latency, snake in the grass, secret, stowaway, concealed, hidden, secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark, cryptic, cryptical, private, privy, in petto, auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate, tortuous, behind a screen, undercover, under an eclipse, in ambush, in hiding, in disguise, in a cloud, in a fog, in a mist, in a haze, in a dark corner, in the shade, in the dark, clouded, wrapped in clouds, wrapt in clouds, invisible, buried, underground, perdu, secluded, undisclosed &c, untold, covert, untraceable, mysterious, irrevealable, inviolable, confidential, esoteric, not to be spoken of, unmentionable, obreptitious, furtive, stealthy, feline, skulking, surreptitious, underhand, hole and corner, sly, secretive, evasive, reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up, close, close as wax, taciturn, secretly, in secret, in private, in one's sleeve, in holes and corners, in the dark, januis clausis, with closed doors, a huis clos, hugger mugger, a la derobee, under the cloak of, under the rose, under the table, sub rosa, en tapinois, in the background, aside, on the sly, with bated breath, sotto voce, in a whisper, without beat of drum, a la sourdine, behind the veil, beyond mortal ken, beyond the grave, beyond the veil, hid from mortal vision, into the eternal secret, into the realms supersensible, into the supreme mystery, in confidence, in strict confidence, in strictest confidence, confidentially, between ourselves, between you and me, between you and me and the bedpost, entre nous, inter nos, under the seal of secrecy, a couvert, underhand, by stealth, like a thief in the night, stealthily, behind the scenes, behind the curtain, behind one's back, behind a screen, incognito, in camera, it must go no further, it will go no further, don't tell a soul, tell it not in Gath, nobody the wiser, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, let it be tenable in your silence still, background information, deep background information, deep background, background session, backgrounder, not for attribution.