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Privy vs Privity - What's the difference?

privy | privity |

In now|_|rare|archaic|lang=en terms the difference between privy and privity

is that privy is secret, hidden, concealed while privity is privacy, secrecy.

In legal|lang=en terms the difference between privy and privity

is that privy is (legal) a partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc to which he is not himself a party while privity is (legal) a relationship between parties seen as being a result of their mutual interest or participation in a given transaction, contract etc.

As nouns the difference between privy and privity

is that privy is an outdoor toilet; latrine; earth closet; john; johnny house while privity is (obsolete) a divine mystery; something known only to god, or revealed only in holy scriptures.

As an adjective privy

is private, exclusive; not public; one's own.

privy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.
    • The king retreated to his privy chamber.
    the privy purse
  • Secret, hidden, concealed.
  • * 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, p. 82:
    • Nonetheless, in the dark and privy stillness of our minds there are few of us who are not still haunted by worrisome doubts.
  • With knowledge of; party to; let in on.
    • He was privy to the discussions.

    Noun

    (privies)
  • An outdoor toilet; latrine; earth closet; john; johnny house.
  • (legal) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.
    • (Burrill)
    (Wharton)

    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.
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