marital communications privilege

1. 1.

   neither spouse can divulge confidential communications from the other while they were married

   Synonymshusband-wife privilege

   Broaderprivilege

Questions about marital communications privilege

What does marital communications privilege mean?

marital communications privilege means "neither spouse can divulge confidential communications from the other while they were married".

What is another word for marital communications privilege?

Close synonyms include husband-wife privilege. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is marital communications privilege a common word?

marital communications privilege is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.