Confidentiality

noun

noun ·7 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The property of being confidential. uncountable

    "“Protection of victim confidentiality is essential, though we were never contacted about our thoughts on this,” the source said."

  2. 2
    discretion in keeping secret information wordnet
  3. 3
    Something told in confidence; a secret. countable
  4. 4
    the state of being secret wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
incognitoisolationprivacyretirementseclusionsecrecy

Example

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"Before they let us use the software, we had to sign a confidentiality agreement to say we would not release anything about it to the public."

Etymology

From confidential + -ity.

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