privacy
English
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Noun
privacy (countable and uncountable, plural privacies)
- The state of being private; the state of not being seen by others.
- I need my privacy, so please stay out of my room.
- 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterII:
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
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state of being private
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Dutch
Etymology
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Audio (file) - Hyphenation: pri‧va‧cy
Noun
privacy f (uncountable)
Italian
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpraivasi/
Noun
privacy f (invariable)
- privacy (especially online)
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