privateness
English
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editprivateness (usually uncountable, plural privatenesses)
- The quality or state of being private.
- Antonym: publicness
- 1598, Fran[cis] Bacon, “Of Studies”, in Essaies. […], London: […] Iohn VVindet for Humfrey Hooper […], →OCLC, folio [0], verso:
- Their [studies'] chiefe vſe for paſtime is in priuateneſſe and retyring: […]