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  1. secretnessnoun

    Quality of being secret.

  2. secretnessnoun

    Secrecy.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Secretnessnoun

    Etymology: from secret.

    I could muster up
    My giants and my witches too,
    Which are vast constancy and secretness. John Donne.

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  1. secretness

    Secrecy is the practice of hiding information from certain individuals or groups who do not have the "need to know", perhaps while sharing it with other individuals. That which is kept hidden is known as the secret. Secrecy is often controversial, depending on the content or nature of the secret, the group or people keeping the secret, and the motivation for secrecy. Secrecy by government entities is often decried as excessive or in promotion of poor operation; excessive revelation of information on individuals can conflict with virtues of privacy and confidentiality. It is often contrasted with social transparency. Secrecy can exist in a number of different ways: encoding or encryption (where mathematical and technical strategies are used to hide messages), true secrecy (where restrictions are put upon those who take part of the message, such as through government security classification) and obfuscation, where secrets are hidden in plain sight behind complex idiosyncratic language (jargon) or steganography. Another classification proposed by Claude Shannon in 1948 reads there are three systems of secrecy within communication: concealment systems, including such methods as invisible ink, concealing a message in an innocent text, or in a fake covering cryptogram, or other methods in which the existence of the message is concealed from the enemy privacy systems, for example, voice inversion, in which special equipment is required to recover the message "true" secrecy systems where the meaning of the message is concealed by the cypher, code, etc., although its existence is not hidden, and the enemy is assumed to have any special equipment necessary to intercept and record the transmitted signal

Webster Dictionary

  1. Secretnessnoun

    the state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed

  2. Secretnessnoun

    secretiveness; concealment

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of secretness in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of secretness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1


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