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Secretly vs Privately - What's the difference?

secretly | privately |

As adverbs the difference between secretly and privately

is that secretly is in secret, covertly while privately is in a private manner.

secretly

English

Adverb

(-)
  • In secret, covertly.

    • privately

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a private manner.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 13 , author=Andrew Benson , title=Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Alonso and Ferrari may well privately regret the decision to delay their second pit stop until two laps after Maldonado made his on the 24th of 66 laps.}}

    Antonyms

    * publicly