What is the difference between stealthy and furtive?

As adjectives the difference between stealthy and furtive

is that stealthy is characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy while furtive is stealthy.

(er)

Characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy.

* sneaking * undercover * concealed * See also

* stealthiness

(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.

* (stealthy) surreptitious * See also

* furtively * furtiveness