secretiveness

Whenever she was unhappy she felt herself at bay against a pitiless world, and a kind of animal secretiveness possessed her.

This covers up also a good deal of business acumen, shrewdness, and secretiveness which is not so childlike and bland.

Reticence and secretiveness are excellent things in their way; but this too may be overdone.

According to this view, the difference is apparent merely, and depends only upon greater secretiveness.

"If there's one thing I can't abide, it is secretiveness," said Mrs. Bonner, as she watched him up the road towards the village.