SECRETIVENESS Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

secretiveness

noun

Definition of secretiveness

as in secrecy

the practice or habit of keeping secrets or keeping one's affairs secret his secretiveness about his past always made some people suspicious of what he might be hiding

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Recent Examples of secretiveness And, the school wasn’t messing around with the secretiveness of the open practice for those who either received a ticket or media members in attendance. — Trey Wallace Outkick, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026 McCarthy is not the first Hollywood conservative to discuss the industry’s secretiveness over Republicanism. — Zack Sharf, Variety, 19 Dec. 2025

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secrecy

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This hermetic secrecy is how Allure beauty director Sarah Kinonen and I recently found ourselves in the bathroom of a suite in the Aman hotel on New York’s Fifth Avenue, brushing our teeth while members of the Dyson public relations team looked on.

— Jenny Bailly, Allure, 1 Sep. 2026
This deal was clearly arrived at in secrecy, with no public debate, and signed under duress.

— Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026

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