Etymology

concealment

con·ceal·ment
C3O1N1C3E1A1L1M3E1N1T1

Today it means: The practice of keeping secrets. Full definition →

Old French concelement
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Old French · derived fromconcelement“concealment, secrecy”
  2. English todayconcealment

From Old French concelement (“concealment, secrecy”). By surface analysis, conceal + -ment.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.