secretiveness
nounEtymology From secretive + -ness.
1
The state or characteristic of being secretive.
- For a moment he was torn between the secretiveness bred of his position and a human desire to expound his shrewdness.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- organ of secretiveness
- Related terms
- conspiracy of silence, wall of silence