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privacity

privacity noun: techniques used to maintain one's privacy.

Noun

privacity (uncountable)

  1. Techniques used to maintain one's privacy.
    • By that time every millionaire will consider a privacity agent an essential part of his household — even if there is a publicity agent to sit on the opposite side of the same table.1928, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 142, page 426
    • As publicity produces publicness, counter-publicity actions are needed to generate, maintain and protect privacy. I call these actions privacity (Splichal 2018). […] Privacity may be limited to the technical actions we perform online to select a specific 'privacy setting' on social network sites...2022, Slavko Splichal, Datafication of Public Opinion and the Public Sphere, page 1911

Origin of privacity

Blend of privacy + publicity

Questions about privacity

What does privacity mean?
Privacity means techniques used to maintain one's privacy.
What part of speech is privacity?
Privacity is a noun.

Words near privacity in the dictionary

  1. priv
  2. priv. doc.
  3. priv.-doc.
  4. priv.doc.
  5. privacies
  6. privacity
  7. privacy
  8. privacy coin
  9. privacy coins
  10. privacy policies
  11. privacy policy

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