单词 | secretiveness |
释义 | secretiveness (once / 23592 pages) n WORD FAMILY secretive: secretively, secretiveness+/secrete: secreted, secretes, secreting, secretion, secretive, secretor/secretion: hypersecretion, secretions USAGE EXAMPLESThe contrast with the secretiveness of the Clinton campaign and the lack of transparency in the Obama administration would be stark. Wall Street Journal(Oct 13, 2016) Baseball insiders also assume the team has the largest analytics department, though because of the team’s secretiveness, nobody can say for certain. New York Times(Sep 30, 2016) What troubles me is the same old secretiveness that is... New York Times(Sep 12, 2016) 1n characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes) Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper closeness nakedness, openness characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive furtiveness, sneakiness, stealthiness a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously unsociability, unsociableness an unsociable disposition; avoiding friendship or companionship 2n the trait of keeping things secret Syn|Hypo|Hyper secrecy, silence mum secrecy uncommunicativeness the trait of being uncommunicative |
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