Meanings
- uncountableTechniques used to maintain one's privacy.
By that time every millionaire will consider a privacity agent an essential part of his household — even if there is a publicity agent to sit on the opposite side of the same table.
1928, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 142, page 4261 more example
As publicity produces publicness, counter-publicity actions are needed to generate, maintain and protect privacy. I call these actions privacity (Splichal 2018). […] Privacity may be limited to the technical actions we perform online to select a specific 'privacy setting' on social network sites […] but it may also involve complex social actions such as personal social distancing, anonymisation, identity change […]
2022, Slavko Splichal, Datafication of Public Opinion and the Public Sphere, page 1911
Origin
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privacity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/privacity
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