Crossword clues for secretiveness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Secretiveness \Se*cret"ive*ness\, n.
The quality of being secretive; disposition or tendency to conceal.
(Phren.) The faculty or propensity which impels to reserve, secrecy, or concealment.
Wiktionary
n. The state or characteristic of being secretive.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Secretiveness is a phrenological faculty.
Usage examples of "secretiveness".
The sudden secretiveness made him apprehensive, but he asked no questions as she led him further into the hall.
Such are the functions of Acquisitiveness, Secretiveness, Selfishness, and Combativeness, as well as the Generative powers.
Develop secretiveness and selfishness, and they become cunning and profligacy, desperation and crime.
Graf's insistence upon handling all the details of the salvage planning himself, his secretiveness, his anxiety for constant updates on the evacuation schedule—his withdrawal from social contacts that Yei had observed with disfavor, obsessive work schedule, general air of a man with a secret agenda driven to exhaustion—it was all culminating in this.