PRIVACY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

privacy; privateness; seclusion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("privacy" is a kind of...):

reclusiveness (a disposition to prefer seclusion or isolation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The condition of being concealed or hidden

Synonyms:

concealment; privacy; privateness; secrecy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("privacy" is a kind of...):

isolation (a state of separation between persons or groups)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "privacy"):

covertness; hiddenness (the state of being covert and hidden)

bosom (the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept)

confidentiality (the state of being secret)

hiding (the state of being hidden)

Credits

Context examples:

The use of the second code provides additional confidentiality and privacy protection for subjects over that of single coded.

(Double Coded Genomic Data and Samples, NCI Thesaurus)

When men like yourself, who represent the foolish curiosity of the public, came to disturb my privacy I was unable to meet them with dignified reserve.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Identified data and samples coding offers privacy protection similar to general healthcare confidentiality in everyday medical practice.

(Identified Genomic Data and Samples, NCI Thesaurus)

The law also includes standards for setting up secure electronic health records and to protect the privacy of a person’s health information and to keep it from being misused.

(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, NCI Dictionary)

But he insisted on his own privacy and self-seclusion, and so thoroughly ignored Dick that that good-natured creature finally gave him up and scarcely took as much interest in him as in the hitching-post near the stable.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Sherlock Holmes was a past-master in the art of putting a humble witness at his ease, and very soon, in the privacy of Godfrey Staunton’s abandoned room, he had extracted all that the porter had to tell.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then, in the privacy of my own little cabin, she informed me that Ham and Em'ly were an orphan nephew and niece, whom my host had at different times adopted in their childhood, when they were left destitute: and that Mrs. Gummidge was the widow of his partner in a boat, who had died very poor.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The deletion of the coding key(s) linking the data and samples to the subjects identifiers provides additional confidentiality and privacy protection over coded data and samples, as it prevents subject re-identification through the use of the coding key(s) (ICH).

(Anonymised Genomic Data and Samples, NCI Thesaurus)

The Clinical Informatics Shared Resource provides database and application support to the clinical research programs in Cancer Center including overall informatics support for clinical operations, patient registry services, development of clinical trials management applications, laboratory information management applications, privacy protection components necessary to maintain HIPAA-compliant research information services, storage, archival and other informatics services.

(Clinical Informatics Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

The Crusaders had brought back with them experiences of domestic luxuries, of Damascus carpets and rugs of Aleppo, which made them impatient of the hideous bareness and want of privacy which they found in their ancestral strongholds.