privacy
/ˈpɹaɪ.və.si/ sustantivo B1En español: intimidad, privacidad
- The state of being secluded from the presence, sight, or knowledge of others. · I need my privacy, so please stay out of my room.
- Freedom from unwanted or undue disturbance of one's private life. · Those prying neighbours have robbed me of my sense of privacy.
- 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.
Plural privacies
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'You have made a most damnable intrusion into the privacy of our family.
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.
Then the pen of the clerk ceased to move over the paper; he raised his head, and appearing to be perfectly sure of privacy:
Researchers discovered that when individuals feel stripped of their privacy, they tend to withdraw socially as a defensive coping mechanism.
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