What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Privity vs Primity - What's the difference?

privity | primity |

In obsolete terms the difference between privity and primity

is that privity is a private matter, a secret while primity is quality of being first; primitiveness.

privity

English

Noun

(privities)
  • (obsolete) A divine mystery; something known only to God, or revealed only in holy scriptures.
  • (obsolete) A private matter, a secret.
  • Privacy, secrecy.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
    • Him oft and oft I askt in priuitie , / Of what loines and what lignage I did spring.
  • (archaic, in the plural) The genitals.
  • *, I.49:
    • Having ended the delights of nature, they were wont to wipe their privities with perfumed wooll.
  • (legal) A relationship between parties seen as being a result of their mutual interest or participation in a given transaction, contract etc.
  • *

    • primity

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) Quality of being first; primitiveness.
  • * Bishop Pearson
    • This primity God requires to be attributed to himself