Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The quality or condition of being secluded from the presence or view of others.
- n. The state of being free from unsanctioned intrusion: a person's right to privacy.
- n. The state of being concealed; secrecy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A state of being private, or in retirement from the company or from the knowledge or observation of others; seclusion.
- n. A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement.
- n. Joint knowledge; privity. See privity.
- n. Taciturnity.
- n. Secrecy; concealment of what is said or done.
- n. A private or personal matter, circumstance, or relation.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being private; the state of not being seen by others.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion.
- n. A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement.
- n. Concealment of what is said or done.
- n. A private matter; a secret.
- n. obsolete See Privity, 2.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the condition of being concealed or hidden
- n. the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others
Examples
“A fundamental notion in privacy is the idea of different spheres.”
Discourse.net: Privacy is More About Control than About Content
“Among the people, indeed, what we term privacy in the Occident does not exist.”
“In an attempt to discredit the understanding of Spyware, a more formal classification of its included software types is captured under the term privacy-invasive software”
“In the end, I feel my privacy is a small price to pay for educating the government about the medium.”
“Today, he says, Abine uses the word "privacy" again, and has received more than 30 unsolicited approaches from investors in the past six months.”
“Politico reported that it knows the women's names but isn't disclosing them for what it called privacy reasons.”
“Neither woman was named by Politico because of what it called "privacy concerns".”
The Guardian: Herman Cain: first appearances after sexual harassment allegations – live
“For China, data privacy is the overarching concern, particularly the loss of state secrets in data collected and sent to the U.S. for lawsuits.”
“The very meaning of the word "privacy" changes in an instant when you are facing a life-altering, or potentially catastrophic, medical condition that threatens to uproot your life.”
“To portray their interception as enhancing my privacy is absurd.”
Can an Eavesdropper Protect Your Privacy? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘privacy’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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The Buzz
The bang, the cannonade,
the bale, the hum.lab situation, media, startup, scientific, gameplay, social, intuitive, creative, collaborative, funding, non-governmental ..., consultant and 124 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1078 more...
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Features
What are we looking for? What would we like? What do we need? What's here already? What do we miss?
some HTML, orthoepist, comments on lists, comments on profiles, trending words, Random word, Word of the day, pronunciations, comments on tags, new lists, contributors, profile list of tags and 24 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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GPaX. Words.
excogitate, clarity, obscurity, tangential, interesting, regurgitate, mycelium, degradation, unladen, swallow, klein, quote and 120 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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I am the law!
Words I learnt at law school
appeal, blackletter, contract, dictum, headnote, judgment, litigation, malfeasance, negligence, plaintiff, quantum, remedy and 216 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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♡LOVE and things like it♡
dedicated to my man Steven, without whom i would be addicted to drugs, lying in a gutter, hating myself, or hooking somewhere :)
affectionate, amative, amatory, amiable, ammophilous, amorous, ardent, attached to, attracted to, beloved, bewitching, bitten and 404 more...
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U.S. and Them
Words that Americans pronounce differently
aluminium, tomato, herb, apricot, fillet, leisure, vase, cordial, garage, route, oregano, iraq and 17 more...
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The literature of eschatology
In my beginning is my end.
The end is where we start from. (T.S. Eliot).
The end is the beginning is the end.
(Smashing Pumpkins).
Books whose titles begin ...nature, science, medicine, history, food, oil, shareholder value, finance, software, globalization, politics, laissez-faire and 23 more...
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NSLS Library 2.0 conference
search, google, advertising, perception, boring, civilian, bun, hysterical, ignored, indifference, love, evil and 69 more...
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luddite
simplicity, eschew, thee, thy, thine, thou, wagon, beards, bonnets, quaker, mennonite, amish and 10 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for privacy.
kewpid A two-hour "discussion" on this led to a deluge of references: Britney Spears' trainwreck, disturbingly high college male readership of Who Weekly, unintended nude photos on Bebo, suspected self-lovin' in the Carslaw toilets, Senator Larry Craig's 'wide stance', Ted Haggard, Bill 'n' Monica, mental health, the paparazzi, footage of fat people on Today Tonight, and middle-class Anglo-Saxon reluctance to talk about money, among other things.
All in the interests of developing our legal knowledge of course. May 14, 2008