Privacy
['prɪvəsɪ;'praɪ-] or ['praɪvəsi]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others.
(noun.) the condition of being concealed or hidden.
Edited by Colin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion.
(n.) A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement.
(n.) Concealment of what is said or done.
(n.) A private matter; a secret.
(n.) See Privity, 2.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Secrecy, concealment.[2]. Retreat, retirement, seclusion, solitude.
Editor: Paula
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Retirement, secrecy, solitude, seclusion, retreat, concealment
ANT:Publicity, currency, notoriety, exposure
Editor: Mervin
Definition
n. state of being private or retired from company or observation: a place of seclusion: retreat: retirement: secrecy.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that your privacy suffers intrusion, foretells you will have overbearing people to worry you. For a woman, this dream warns her to look carefully after private affairs. If she intrudes on the privacy of her husband or lover, she will disabuse some one's confidence, if not careful of her conversation.
Editor: Zeke
Examples
- But if she DID, the letter was written and sent away with a privacy which eluded all her watchfulness to ascertain the fact. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Terrible and inhuman were his examinations into every detail; there was no privacy he would spare, no old sentiment but he would turn it over. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What is the meaning of this atrocious intrusion upon my privacy? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- This is the end of all the privacy and propriety which was talked about at first. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- That peasant is more than a symbol of the privacy of human interest: he is a warning against the incurable romanticism which clings about the idea of a revolution. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I kept all the keys and could go where I liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in his privacy. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It seemed to her that Gerald was deliberately insulting her, and infringing on the decent privacy of them all. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- My privacy invaded, my actions censured, my friends insulted? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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