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• n  a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously

• Then the black-veiled mourners, bearing their grief with an odd furtiveness.
• The druggist may cast off his furtiveness, again function as a respectable businessman.
• The furtiveness was part of the kick for the all-male audience at a Rotary meeting or frat-house smoker.

• sneakiness
• stealthiness

Quotes

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• Daniel Okrent in Dallas Morning News
  There's this image of furtiveness and passwords and hidden entranceways,Okrent says. "In fact drinking was very, very public."