surreptitiousness

noun

surreptitiousness

noun

Etymology From surreptitious + -ness.

1

The state or quality of being surreptitious.

  • Weiwei sees one of the stewards bend his head, then place something on the shrine, a surreptitiousness to his movements.2024, Sarah Brooks, The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands, Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, page 18:

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