secretness en · NOUN
Etymology
From secret + -ness.
Meanings
- (uncountable) Quality of being secret.
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(archaic, uncountable) Secrecy.
Now the continualness, the secretness, yet the always present domesticness of our love; how may we best compass that, without jeopardizing the ever-sacred memory I hinted of?
1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities: