Clandestine vs Stealth - What's the difference?
clandestine | stealth |
Done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.
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(freemasonry, of a person or lodge) Not recognized as a regular member.
(uncountable) The attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way that the actions are unnoticed or difficult to detect by others.
(archaic, countable) An act of secrecy, especially one involving thievery.
* 1877 , George Hill, An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the Seventeenth Century , M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr, page 352:
As an adjective clandestine
is done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.As a noun stealth is
the attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way that the actions are unnoticed or difficult to detect by others.clandestine
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Adjective
(en adjective)- In my imagination, all work place encounters between men and women result in clandestine sex.
- And I don't want anyone to think I dislike Catholicism because I don't. It's actually my favourite form of clandestine global evil.
Synonyms
* (done in secret) covert, furtive, hush-hush, secret, secretive, undercover * See alsostealth
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Noun
- [The King] thinks it fit[...] that restitution according to this order be made to the petitioners for stealths committed upon them last winter (273).