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Strictness vs Secrecy - What's the difference?

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Strictness is a related term of secrecy.


As nouns the difference between strictness and secrecy

is that strictness is (uncountable) the state or quality of being strict while secrecy is concealment; the condition of being secret or hidden.

strictness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
  • :Discipline calls for a certain strictness .
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , I lost all restraint, and yielding to the force of the emotion, gave down, as mere woman, those effusions of pleasure, which, in the strictness of still faithful love, I could have wished to have held up.}}
  • (countable) The result or product of being strict.

    • secrecy

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia secrecy)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

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