Overt vs Furtive - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between overt and furtive

is that overt is open and not secret nor concealed while furtive is stealthy.

(wikipedia overt)

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Open and not secret nor concealed.

* overtly * overtness

* covert * hidden

* * ----

(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