单词 | privateness |
释义 | privatenessn. The quality or condition of being private; withdrawal from public or official life, duties, etc.; privacy, seclusion. Formerly also: †intimacy, secrecy, confidentiality (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] dighelnessc1000 dernship?c1225 derna1250 concealmenta1325 hidnessc1330 hiddennessc1380 privy1384 secrenessc1386 secre1390 stillnessa1400 secretnessa1475 hodelnessec1475 scuggery?a1500 hugger-mugger1529 closeness1562 secrecy1563 privatenessa1586 covertness1592 hugger-mug1654 privacy1702 conspiracy of silence1865 hush-hush1973 the mind > possession > owning > [noun] > private or individual ownership improperation1502 privatenessa1586 individuity1606 peculiarity1611 unsharedness1896 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > intimacy privitya1250 nearnessc1485 familiarness1539 inwardness1578 greatnessa1586 privatenessa1586 entireness1599 habitude1612 gossiprya1614 strictnessc1614 mutualitiesa1616 particulara1616 intimity1617 privancy1622 privacy1638 intimacy1641 intimateness1642 familiarity1664 throng1768 closeness1851 close harmony1876 innerliness1888 insociation1893 dearness- society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] privity?c1225 reclusionc1430 abstractionc1450 recess?1532 privacy1534 solitariousness1545 retirea1554 secess1570 privatenessa1586 retirednessa1586 retirement1603 secrecy1607 closeness1612 shadow1612 privatea1616 recluseness1648 abstractednessa1653 recluse1665 abscondence1694 seclusion1785 seclusiveness1822 retiracy1824 secludedness1835 retraite1843 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > freedom from public attention or intrusion > quality of privatenessa1586 society > authority > office > holder of office > [noun] > not > position of privatenessa1586 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > self-interest > [noun] proper exquisitionc1430 privatenessa1586 interest1622 self-concernment1644 self-interest1649 self-bias1657 self-concern1670 interess1678 self-reference1802 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > [noun] > quality of being particular or not general > quality of being personal > quality of being intimate or private privatenessa1586 privacya1625 intimacy1648 intimity1889 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Kk1v All churlish wordes, shrewd answeres, crabbed lookes, All priuatenes, selfe-seeking, inward spite. 1604 F. Bacon Apol. in Wks. (1879) I. 435 This difference in two points so main and material, bred in process of time a discontinuance of privateness. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 245 To attempt the defacing of them in an open manner, where our privatenesse cannot extend. 1676 G. Towerson Explic. Decalogue 441 Differenc'd..by the publickness or privateness of the things. 1711 Full Answer conc. Birth Pretended Prince of Wales 29 The reason of this privateness, being lest Envoys to Rome..would have look'd suspicious. 1753 W. Whately Direct. Married Persons xi. 53 Not having the Wit nor Power to refrain themselves 'till a fit Place of Privateness may be gotten. 1842 H. Taylor Edwin the Fair iv. ii. 189 Now He shall be tutored to perceive the joys Of privateness, best fitted for his years. 1881 A. C. Swinburne Mary Stuart iv. iii. 181 All license and all privateness that may Be used of wife and husband. 1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros xv. 212 I'll walk apart, madam,..if thou wouldst have privateness to deliver thy mind. 1941 ‘G. Orwell’ Lion & Unicorn 15 What it does link up with..is the addiction to hobbies and spare-time occupations, the privateness of English life. 1996 P. Boling Privacy & Politics of Intimate Life i. 32 Others argue that various forms of oppression—economic, racial, sexual, ethnic—occur in, and are veiled by, the privateness of social relations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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