| Main Entry: | secrecy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concealment |
Synonyms: |
clandestineness, confidence, confidentiality, covertness, dark, darkness, furtiveness, hiding, hush, isolation, mystery, privacy, reticence, retirement, seclusion, secretiveness, secretness, silence, solitude, stealth, suppression, surreptitiousness |
Antonyms: |
forthrightness, honesty, openness, publicity, revelation |
| Main Entry: | secrecy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
invisible, low, top, abditive, alphanumeric, arcane, auricular, backdoor, backstage, backstairs, behind, behind a screen, buttoned up, cabalistic, clancular, clandestine, classified, close, close as wax, clouded, concealed, confidential, covert, cryptic, cryptical, dark, doggo, esoteric, evasive, feline, furtive, hidden, hole and corner, hush, in a dark corner, in a fog, in a haze, in a mist, in ambush, in disguise, in hiding, in petto, in the dark, in the shade, incognito, inviolable, irrevealable, mysterious, mystic, not to be spoken of, oblique, obreptitious, obscure, occult, private, privy, recondite, reserved, reticent, secluded, secret, secretive, skulking, sly, stealthy, sub rosa, subterranean, surreptitious, taciturn, uncommunicative, under, under an eclipse, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, undisclosed, untold, wise, wrapt in clouds
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| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance; mystery |
Synonyms: |
concealment, denseness, inscrutability, seclusion, secrecy, thickness |
Antonyms: |
cognizance, enlightening, intelligence, sense, sensibility, understanding |
| Main Entry: | darkness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance; mystery |
Synonyms: |
blindness, concealment, denseness, inscrutability, isolation, privacy, seclusion, secrecy, unawareness |
Antonyms: |
cognizance, enlightening, intelligence, sense, sensibility, understanding |
| Main Entry: | mystery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | puzzle, secret |
Synonyms: |
abstruseness, brainteaser, braintwister, charade, chiller, cliffhanger, closed book, conundrum, crux, cryptogram, difficulty, enigma, grabber, inscrutability, inscrutableness, mindboggler, mystification, occult, oracle, perplexity, poser, problem, puzzlement, question, rebus, riddle, rune, secrecy, sixty-four-thousand-dollar question, sphinx, stickler, stumper, subtlety, teaser, thriller, tough nut to crack, twister, whodunit, why* |
Antonyms: |
known, understanding |
| Main Entry: | silence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absence of sound, speech |
Synonyms: |
blackout, calm, censorship, dead air, death, dumbness, hush, hush-hush, inarticulateness, iron curtain, laconism, lull, muteness, noiselessness, peace, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, quietus, reserve, reticence, saturninity, secrecy, sleep, speechlessness, still, stillness, sulk, sullenness, taciturnity, uncommunicativeness |
Antonyms: |
clamor, communication, noise, talk |
| Main Entry: | low profile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | avoidance of attention |
Synonyms: |
inconspicuousness, latency, low key, low posture, low visibility, reluctance, reticence, secrecy, semivisibility |
| Main Entry: | closeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nearness |
Synonyms: |
adjacency, compactness, density, illiberality, intimacy, parsimony, penuriousness, propinquity, proximity, reticence, secrecy, secretiveness, stinginess, strictness |
| Main Entry: | furtiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stealth |
Synonyms: |
concealment, covertness, secrecy, secretiveness, secretness, slyness, sneakiness, stealthiness, surreptitiousness |
| Main Entry: | noiselessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | silence |
Synonyms: |
blackout, calm, censorship, dead air, death, dumbness, hush, hush-hush, inarticulateness, iron curtain, laconism, lull, muteness, peace, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, quietus, reserve, reticence, saturninity, secrecy, sleep, soundlessness, speechlessness, still, stillness, sulk, sullenness, taciturnity, uncommunicativeness |