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Meanings of secretiveness in English

Catalan
reserva
Spanish
reserva

Characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)

reserva

The trait of keeping things secret.

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Examples for "closeness"
Examples for "closeness"
1
But that very closeness has given rise to new dangers, he said.
The Irish Times
2
It shows a new closeness forming between BBC news and the public.
The Guardian
3
Of course the closeness of small towns can provide healing moments too.
News.com.au
4
What about her dangerous closeness to Lord Melbourne, her first Prime Minister?
The Irish Times
5
Others look dimly on Blanco's closeness to free-trade deals outside the WTO.
Reuters
Usage of secretiveness in English
1
Why is the Department a byword among journalists for secretiveness and unhelpfulness?
The Irish Times
2
For there is no streak of mean secretiveness in Green Valley folks.
Green Valley
3
Critics say any secretiveness only fuels more conspiracy theories and partisan rhetoric.
Reuters
4
In his secretiveness he didn't merely resemble Newton, but actively exceeded him.
A short history of nearly everything
5
Oh, that accursed secretiveness in women, which makes them always belie themselves!
Godolphin, Volume 5.
6
They plant distrust and secretiveness, and they produce in us after their kind.
Lessons in Life; A Series of Familiar Essays
7
And in his astonishment he wondered at the secretiveness of London.
The Roll-Call
8
Of course I couldn't foresee all the secretiveness that would ensue.
Amberville
9
Peregrine lately told me an instance of the extraordinary secretiveness of the labourer.
A Cotswold Village; Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucesters...
10
Now in the period of pregnancy the artist's mood is one of secretiveness.
Love's Pilgrimage: A Novel
11
Yet, he had the secretiveness of sand; he absorbed, but he revealed nothing.
The Puppet Crown
12
Jealousy and secretiveness are much rarer among them than in Europe.
Your United States: Impressions of a first visit
13
Another source of comparatively harmless lying is the instinct for secretiveness.
Your Child: Today and Tomorrow / Some Problems for Parents Conce...
14
Is it because there's a combination of show business and secretiveness?
The new yorker
15
Develop secretiveness and selfishness, and they become cunning and profligacy, desperation and crime.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English / or,...
16
We have many objections to the Overlords-but above all we detest their secretiveness.
Childhood's End
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Translations for secretiveness
Catalan
reserva
Spanish
reserva
Secretiveness through the time
Secretiveness across language varieties
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