| Privateness 1. (n.) Seclusion from company or society; retirement; privacy; secrecy. 2. (n.) The state of one not invested with public office. Thesaurus Entries Jim Crow, alien, alienation, aloneness, aloofness, anonymity, apartheid, celibacy, closed meeting, color bar, confidentiality, confidentialness, cordon, cordon sanitaire, cordoning off, detachment, division, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, executive session, foreigner, incognito, insularity, insulation, isolation, keeping apart, know-nothingism, loneliness, loneness, lonesomeness, moving apart, narrowness, out-group, outcast, outsider, parochialism, persona non grata, privacy, private, private conference, privateness, quarantine, quarantine flag, race hatred, racial segregation, reclusion, retirement, sanitary cordon, seclusiveness, segregation, separateness, separation, sequestration, single blessedness, snobbishness, solitariness, solitude, splendid isolation, stranger, tightness, withdrawal, xenophobia, yellow flag, yellow jack |