Privy vs Secrecy - What's the difference?
privy | secrecy |
Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.
Secret, hidden, concealed.
* 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, p. 82:
With knowledge of; party to; let in on.
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.
Concealment; the condition of being secret or hidden.
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*: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.
As nouns the difference between privy and secrecy
is that privy is an outdoor toilet; latrine; earth closet; john; johnny house while secrecy is concealment; the condition of being secret or hidden.As an adjective privy
is private, exclusive; not public; one's own.privy
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The king retreated to his privy chamber.
- the privy purse
- Nonetheless, in the dark and privy stillness of our minds there are few of us who are not still haunted by worrisome doubts.
- He was privy to the discussions.
Noun
(privies)- (Burrill)
- (Wharton)
