right of privacy

1. 1.

   a legal right (not explicitly provided in the United States Constitution) to be left alone; the right to live life free from unwarranted publicity

   Broaderlegal right

   law

Questions about right of privacy

What does right of privacy mean?

right of privacy means "a legal right (not explicitly provided in the United States Constitution) to be left alone; the right to live life free from unwarranted publicity".

Is right of privacy a common word?

right of privacy 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.