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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concealment |
| Synonyms: | clandestineness, confidence, confidentiality, covertness, dark, darkness, furtiveness, hiding, hush, isolation, mystery, privacy, reticence, retirement, seclusion, secretiveness, secretness, silence, solitude, stealth, suppression, surreptitiousness |
| Antonyms: | forthrightness, honesty, openness, publicity, revelation |
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| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance; mystery |
| Synonyms: | concealment, denseness, inscrutability, seclusion, secrecy, thickness |
| Antonyms: | cognizance, enlightening, intelligence, sense, sensibility, understanding |
| Main Entry: | darkness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance; mystery |
| Synonyms: | blindness, concealment, denseness, inscrutability, isolation, privacy, seclusion, secrecy, unawareness |
| Antonyms: | cognizance, enlightening, intelligence, sense, sensibility, understanding |
| Main Entry: | mystery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | puzzle, secret |
| Synonyms: | abstruseness, brainteaser, braintwister, charade, chiller, cliffhanger, closed book, conundrum, crux, cryptogram, difficulty, enigma, grabber, inscrutability, inscrutableness, mindboggler, mystification, occult, oracle, perplexity, poser, problem, puzzlement, question, rebus, riddle, rune, secrecy, sixty-four-thousand-dollar question, sphinx, stickler, stumper, subtlety, teaser, thriller, tough nut to crack, twister, whodunit, why* |
| Antonyms: | known, understanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | silence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absence of sound, speech |
| Synonyms: | blackout, calm, censorship, dead air, death, dumbness, hush, hush-hush, inarticulateness, iron curtain, laconism, lull, muteness, noiselessness, peace, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, quietus, reserve, reticence, saturninity, secrecy, sleep, speechlessness, still, stillness, sulk, sullenness, taciturnity, uncommunicativeness |
| Antonyms: | clamor, communication, noise, talk |
| Main Entry: | closeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nearness |
| Synonyms: | adjacency, compactness, density, illiberality, intimacy, parsimony, penuriousness, propinquity, proximity, reticence, secrecy, secretiveness, stinginess, strictness |
| Main Entry: | low profile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | avoidance of attention |
| Synonyms: | inconspicuousness, latency, low key, low posture, low visibility, reluctance, reticence, secrecy, semivisibility |
| Main Entry: | furtiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stealth |
| Synonyms: | concealment, covertness, secrecy, secretiveness, secretness, slyness, sneakiness, stealthiness, surreptitiousness |
| Main Entry: | noiselessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | silence |
| Synonyms: | blackout, calm, censorship, dead air, death, dumbness, hush, hush-hush, inarticulateness, iron curtain, laconism, lull, muteness, peace, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, quietus, reserve, reticence, saturninity, secrecy, sleep, soundlessness, speechlessness, still, stillness, sulk, sullenness, taciturnity, uncommunicativeness |
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