Crossword-Solution: SECRETIVENESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Secretiveness | n. | The quality of being secretive; disposition or tendency to conceal. |
| Secretiveness | n. | The faculty or propensity which impels to reserve, secrecy, or concealment. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “SECRETIVENESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| furtiveness | 16 answers |
| guardedness | 16 answers |
| judiciousness | 16 answers |
| evasiveness | 17 answers |
| Watchfulness | 19 answers |
| stealth | 24 answers |
| Vigilance | 25 answers |
| Wariness | 28 answers |
| Reticence | 28 answers |
| secrecy | 32 answers |
| prudence | 61 answers |
| Scheme | 61 answers |
| slyness | 70 answers |
| Wisdom ___ | 71 answers |
| Plot | 75 answers |
| Hush! | 90 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SECRETIVENESS (5)
Whenever she was unhappy she felt herself at bay against a pitiless world, and a kind of animal secretiveness possessed her.
The steady grey eyes, seemingly smaller yet more conspicuous than before, revealed in their glance new elements of secretiveness, of strategy supported by abundant and confident personal force.
The boy's voice had risen despite his efforts to hold it to a low whisper for what with the excitement of the adventure and his terror of the girl with the knife he had little or no control of himself, yet it was evident that he did not realize that practically every word he had spoken had reached the ears of the three in hiding and that his final precaution as he divulged the information to the girl was prompted by an excess of timidity and secretiveness.
One lady had even remarked that, on her part, she felt that a too great reserve verged upon secretiveness, which was not a desirable girlish quality.
But the partial secretiveness had also occasionally its conscious motives, some unselfish, and some self-regarding; and from this point of view it stood in marked apparent antagonism to the more expansive quality.
Quotes with SECRETIVENESS (3)
Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling, of not being able to get what one wants, or even name it properly (or consistently) to oneself — these can be, it is felt they ought to be, masked by friendliness, or the most scrupulous manipulation.
We who were not so pathologically far out on the spectrum of self-involvement, we dwellers of the visible spectrum who could imagine how it felt to go beyond violet but were not ourselves beyond it, could see that David was wrong not to believe in his lovability and could imagine the pain of not believing in it. How easy and natural love is if you are well! And how gruesomely difficult--what a philosophically daunting contraption of self-interest and self-delusion love appear…
The old world was destroyed because of its own greed and secretiveness. Those least evolved rose to the top, as happens here. Your leaders, as you call them, are all people with damaged senses of self-worth. The damaged goods run the civilization. That’s why it cannot last." "Abraham Lincoln was damaged goods?""The need to lead is a symptom.