An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SECRECY
secrecy, secretiveness, silence
(noun) the trait of keeping things secret
privacy, privateness, secrecy, concealment
(noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
secrecy (countable and uncountable, plural secrecies)
Concealment; the condition of being secret or hidden.
The habit of keeping secrets.
Synonyms
• dern
Source: Wiktionary
Se"cre*cy, n.; pl. Secrecies. Etym: [From Secret.]
1. The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy. The Lady Anne, Whom the king hath in secrecy long married. Shak.
2. That which is concealed; a secret. [R.] Shak.
3. Seclusion; privacy; retirement. "The pensive secrecy of desert cell." Milton.
4. The quality of being secretive; fidelity to a secret; forbearance of disclosure or discovery. It is not with public as with private prayer; in this, rather secrecy is commanded than outward show. Hooker.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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