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secretness

secretness noun: quality of being secret.

Noun

secretness (uncountable)

  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

Origin of secretness

From secret + -ness.

Questions about secretness

What does secretness mean?
Secretness means quality of being secret.
What part of speech is secretness?
Secretness is a noun.

Words near secretness in the dictionary

  1. secretively
  2. secretiveness
  3. secretly
  4. secretmonger
  5. secretmongers
  6. secretness
  7. secretogen
  8. secretogenic
  9. secretogens
  10. secretoglobin
  11. secretoglobins

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