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What is the difference between secrecy and furtive?

secrecy | furtive |

As a noun secrecy

is concealment; the condition of being secret or hidden.

As a adjective furtive is

stealthy.

secrecy

English

Noun

(wikipedia secrecy)
  • Concealment; the condition of being secret or hidden.
  • *
  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
  • The habit of keeping secrets.

    • Synonyms

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    furtive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • stealthy
  • Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
  • * 1949 , George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p31
    • But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control.

    Synonyms

    * (stealthy) surreptitious * See also

    Derived terms

    * furtively * furtiveness