secretness

noun — 2 senses

secretness

noun

Etymology From secret + -ness.

1

Quality of being secret.

2

Archaic Secrecy.

  • Now the continualness, the secretness, yet the always present domesticness of our love; how may we best compass that, without jeopardizing the ever-sacred memory I hinted of?1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:

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