PRIVITY

Definition: PRIVITY

PRIVITY

Adjective

1. A connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to some particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property.

2. The genitals; the privates.

3. A private matter or business; a secret.

4. Private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a private concern; cognizance implying consent or concurrence.

5. Privacy; secrecy; confidence.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "PRIVITY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Privity \Priv"i*ty\, noun; plural Privities(-t[i^]z). [From Privy, a.: compare to French privaut['e] extreme familiarity.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Knowledge	Noun: knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence; acquaintance, experience, ken, privity, insight, familiarity; comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation; (judgment); intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition; acroamatics.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: PRIVITY

English words defined with "PRIVITY": Privities. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Landlord and tenant : privity of contract and estate : duration of liability of parties to leases (reference) Privity of contract (reference) Some Minor Works Of Richard Rolle, With The Privity Of The Passion By S Bonaventura (BCL1-PR English Literature) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"PRIVITY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PRIVITY" is used about 70 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	70	39,981

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "PRIVITY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sekret (confidential, hidden, secret, undercover), fshehtësi (conspiracy, furtiveness, privacy, reserve, secrecy). (various references)

Bulgarian		осведоменост (awareness, cognizance, conversance, information), знание (cognition, cognizance, familiarity, information, knowing, knowledge, notion, wisdom). (various references)

French		rapport juridique. (various references)

Greek		μύηση (initiation), μυστικότησ (mysticalness, privacy, privateness, secrecy), μυστικότητα (hugger mugger, mysticalness, privacy, privateness, secrecy). (various references)

Hungarian		tudomás (awareness, cognizance, knowledge, notice). (various references)

Italian		rapporto (account, bearing, bulletin, comparison, concern, connection, connexion, contact, intercourse, minutes, rapport, rate, ratio, reference, relation, relationship, report, return, statement, story, touch, truck), conoscenza (acquaintance, acquaintanceship, aquaintance, consciousness, contact, Ken, knowledge). (various references)

Pig Latin		ivitypray

Portuguese		pessoas (people, persons), laços de sangue (kinship), conhecimento (acquaintance, attainment, awareness, background, cognition, cognizance, command, conscious, consciousness, conversance, familiarity, friend, idea, information, insight, instruction, intelligence, know, knowing, learning, light, lore, manifest, perception, scholarship, science), confidência (collogue, confidence, secret, whisper). (various references)

Romanian		caracter secret (mysteriousness). (various references)

Russian		осведомленность (awareness, conversance). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		poverljivost. (various references)

Spanish		vínculo legal, obligación (bond, commitment, debenture, duty, engagement, liability, must, obligation, trust), conocimiento (acquaintance, acquaintanceship, awareness, cognizance, consciousness, conversance, conviction, enquiry, expedition, fame, familiarity, glory, knowing, knowledge, light, shipping bill). (various references)

Swedish		vetskap (cognizance, knowledge), intressegemenskap. (various references)

Turkish		ortaklık (association, community, company, coparcenary, copartnership, joint adventure, joint undertaking, joint venture, participation, partnership, tie up), ortak çıkar ilişkisi, kişiye özellik (privacy), kişisellik, gizli bilgi (tip off), özel olma (exclusiveness). (various references)

Ukrainian		секретність (dark, privacy, wraps), та�"мниця (arcana, hugger mugger, mystery, riddle, secrecy), обізнаність (conversance, information), причетність (implication). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "PRIVITY" (pronounced 'Priv"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "i-i-p-r-t-v-y"
	-2 letters: privy.
	-3 letters: pity, tipi, tivy, trip.
	-4 letters: ivy, pit, pry, rip, tip, try, yip.
	-5 letters: it, pi, ti.
	Words containing the letters "i-i-p-r-t-v-y"
	+3 letters: proclivity, viviparity.
	+4 letters: irruptively, partitively, primitively, primitivity, privatively, receptivity.
	+5 letters: absorptivity, disruptively, expressivity, imperatively, perceptivity, perfectivity, permittivity, predictively, productivity, repetitively.
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