secretiveness

secretive | American Dictionary

secretive
adjective
us/ˈsi·krɪ·t̬ɪv/
not wanting others to know, or done privately so that others do not know:
secretive dealings
She’s secretive about her age.

Examples of secretive

secretive
Some of the more highly-placed declarants seemed positively secretive.
Revealing patronage systems through reliable and complete data is not possible, since such systems are secretive and may incite ethnic conflict.
Both studied cervids are wary, secretive and solitary animals.
Unlike its partial, secretive and often arbitrary old regime counterpart, revolutionary law was both systematic, universal and transparent.
Because policy networks have closed and secretive deliberations, international actors cannot make alliances with social actors who agreed with them more than government officials do.
He describes a contentious and secretive process of the bottom+up (or middle+up) drafting of orders that eventually reach the emperor for approval.
Conceivably, the use of contraceptives under such conditions may be secretive and the chances are high that the instructions may not be followed faithfully.
The consensus in the maltreatment field is one of victim underreporting, rather than overreporting, given the stigmatic and secretive nature of maltreatment.
Until then the privatisation process had been very slow and highly secretive.
Yet the number of local absences of rare or secretive species was probably overestimated.
It looks like the rather secretive managers were the ones most responsible for the lack of communication between identity categories.
This view of the language as secretive suggests of course that a form of negative accommodation or bystander deixis belongs to its primary functions.
Corridors are places for casual meetings, for passing others with barely a glance, or for furtive, secretive, and intimate moments.
Secretive networks, however, are difficult to study, and tend to be unattractive candidates for rigorous social science research.
As research becomes more secretive, the possibility for peer review to be used as a basis from which research is assessed or evaluated diminishes.
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