privacy

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The state of being secluded from the presence, sight, or knowledge of others.

   I need my privacy, so please stay out of my room.

2. 2
   noun

   Freedom from unwanted or undue disturbance of one's private life.

   It takes a village to rob one of a sense of privacy.

3. 3
   noun

   Freedom from damaging publicity, public scrutiny, surveillance, and disclosure of personal information, usually by a government or a private organization.

   Privacy is assumed by many to be among common-law rights.

4. 4
   noun

   A private matter.

   It ſeems more probable that Ovid vvas either the Confident of ſome other paſſion, or that he had ſtumbled by ſome inadvertency, upon the privacies of Livia, and ſeen her in a Bath: […]

5. 5
   noun

   the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others

6. 6
   noun

   the condition of being concealed or hidden

7. 7
   noun

   A place of seclusion.

8. 8
   noun

   A relationship between parties seen as being a result of their mutual interest or participation in a given transaction, contract etc.

Etymology

From private + -cy.