Secretiveness
[si'kri:tivnis]
Definition
(n.) The quality of being secretive; disposition or tendency to conceal.
(n.) The faculty or propensity which impels to reserve, secrecy, or concealment.
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Examples
- What I wonder at israther your secretiveness than your courage. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- These men all had complete faith in his ability and stood by him as on a rock, guarding their work with the secretiveness of a burglar-proof safe. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Luke