secretness

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noun

Quality of being secret.

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Meanings

nounsecretness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableQuality of being secret.
  2. archaicuncountableSecrecy.

    Now the continualness, the secretness, yet the always present domesticness of our love; how may we best compass that, without jeopardizing the ever-sacred memory I hinted of?

    1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Origin

From secret + -ness.

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APA

secretness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/secretness

MLA

“secretness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/secretness. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “secretness,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/secretness.

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