secretiveness

Other forms of secretiveness

plural

secretivenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about secretiveness

What does secretiveness mean?

secretiveness means "characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in secretiveness?

secretiveness has 4 syllables: se-creti-ve-ness. The stress falls on "se". In IPA it is /ˈsikɹətɪvnəs/.

What is another word for secretiveness?

Close synonyms include closeness, secrecy, silence. 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 secretiveness a common word?

secretiveness 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.