Noun: secrecy
| Singular | secrecy |
| Plural | secrecies |
Sample Sentences
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I was sworn to secrecy.
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Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either. [1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
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I suspect that this large and complex military railway system, shrouded in official secrecy for most of its operational life, remains unknown to many people. [2022 January 12, Chris Hegg, “The secret railway in the woods”, in RAIL, number 948, page 34:]
Nouns inflected like secrecy
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
An alteration (on the model of primacy, etc.) of Late Middle English secretee, from Old French secré. See: Middle English Nouns '
secretee'.