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• n  characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)
• n  the trait of keeping things secret

• Is it the secretiveness and the covertness? Yeah, all of that stuff.
• British and Norwegian rescuers who rushed to the aid of the Kursk sailors after the sinking complained of Russian confusion, secretiveness and suspicion.
• What with security regulations, censorship and personal secretiveness, the only way I can find out anything these days is by peeping.

• closeness
• secrecy
• silence

• openness

News & Articles

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• NY Minute: Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveils Tax-Free NY legislation
  Cuomo ready to introduce campaign reform bill, but won't release parody video on his secretiveness.
  June 11, 2013 - The Post-Standard
• Cuomo Now Keeps Comic Video He Screened a Secret
  Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s office has not honored a Freedom of Information request for a video he already screened that pokes fun at his reputation for secretiveness.
  June 10, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Jason Statham in Philadelphia Daily News
  But that secretiveness is great for us,Statham said. "It makes the movie a fresh story."
• Clare Short in Telegraph.co.uk
  In the case of Iraq, there was secretiveness and deception,Miss Short added, and she was "frozen out" despite having responsibility for planning for the aftermath of any invasion.
• Ian Kershaw in History News Network
  The combination of Hitler's innate secretiveness,Kershaw writes, "the emptiness ofhis personal relations, his unbureaucratic style, the extremes of adulation and hatred which he stirred up, and the apologetics as well as distortions built...