confidentiality
confidentiality noun: the property of being confidential.
Noun
confidentiality (countable and uncountable, plural confidentialities)
- The property of being confidential.
- “Protection of victim confidentiality is essential, though we were never contacted about our thoughts on this,” the source said.2016 September 1, Ellie Kaufman, “University of Kentucky sues student newspaper over sexual assault case”, in CNN
- The company was unable to comment on much of the moves owing to client confidentiality agreements.2023 October 18, Pip Dunn, “Network News: HSTs land in Mexico with more primed for export”, in RAIL, number 994, page 14
- Something told in confidence; a secret.
confidentiality meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Punjabi
confidentiality in Tamil
- நம்பகமான, மறைவடக்கு
confidentiality in Malayalam
- രഹസ്യാത്മകത
confidentiality in Punjabi
- ਗੁਪਤਤਾ
Examples of confidentiality in a sentence
- To avoid this, our firm plays good cop–bad cop with buyers about confidentiality.
- The Chatham House Rule is used to help facilitate free speech and confidentiality at meetings.
- Godlewski refused to be more specific because, he said, of a confidentiality agreement with Scientific Protein.
Forms of confidentiality
| plural | confidentialities |
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Origin of confidentiality
From confidential + -ity.
Words that rhyme with confidentiality
- modality
- plurality
- locality
- personality
- reality
- fatality
- morality
- bestiality
- potentiality
- sexuality
- duality
- formality
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- instrumentality
- irrationality
- tonality
- asexuality
- banality
- brutality
- centrality
- externality
- generality
- hospitality
- normality
- totality
- causality
- conventionality
- cordiality
- dimensionality
- eventuality
- extraterritoriality
- fantasticality
- homosexuality
- immorality
- legality
- lethality
- mentality
- notionality
- sensuality
- surreality
- temporality
- androsexuality
- chirality
- congeniality
- dentality
- diapersexuality
- finality
- fursonality
- geniality
- grammaticality
- graysexuality
- gynesexuality
- gynosexuality
- institutionality
- joviality
- magnality
- mysticality
- omnipotentiality
- speciality
- sphericality
- topicality
Questions about confidentiality
- What does confidentiality mean?
- Confidentiality means the property of being confidential.
- What is confidentiality in Tamil?
- Confidentiality in Tamil is நம்பகமான, மறைவடக்கு. See Confidentiality meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is confidentiality?
- Confidentiality is a noun.
- What is the plural of confidentiality?
- The plural of confidentiality is confidentialities.
Words near confidentiality in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: confidentiality (page history and authors); confidentiality (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); confidentiality (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); confidentiality (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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