closetiness en · NOUN
Etymology
From closety + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The fact of being closety; reticence or secrecy about one's homosexuality.
The admitted ("committed" or "overt") homosexual is far more exotic, controversial and threatening to the traditional psychoanalyst than one who exhibits the more familiar ego-dystonicity, however severe, even if that dystonicity is arguably cultural in origin. Closetyness can be tolerated in a way that an "uppity" positive and proud attitude will not be.
1979 August 11, Lawrence Mass, “Psychiatry on Trial”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 4, page 8: