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privateness

privateness noun: the quality or state of being private.

Noun

privateness (usually uncountable, plural privatenesses)

  1. (usually) The quality or state of being private.
    • Their [studies'] chiefe vſe for paſtime is in priuateneſſe and retyring: […]1598, Fran[cis] Bacon, “Of Studies”, in Essaies. […], London: […] Iohn Windet for Humfrey Hooper […], →OCLC, folio [0], verso
    Antonyms:
    publicness

Antonyms of privateness

Forms of privateness

pluralprivatenesses

Origin of privateness

From private + -ness.

Questions about privateness

What does privateness mean?
Privateness means the quality or state of being private.
What part of speech is privateness?
Privateness is a noun.
What is the plural of privateness?
The plural of privateness is privatenesses.

Words near privateness in the dictionary

  1. privateers
  2. privateersman
  3. privateersmen
  4. privately
  5. privately held
  6. privateness
  7. privatenesses
  8. privater
  9. privates
  10. privates first class
  11. privatest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: privateness (page history and authors). 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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