privacies

Variant of privacy

noun pl. privacies

  1. the quality or condition of being private; withdrawal from company or public view; seclusion
  2. secrecy: told in strict privacy
  3. one's private life or personal affairs: an invasion of one's privacy

Origin: ME privace: see private & -cy

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