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Discreetness

Definition: Discreetness

Discreetness

Noun

1. Knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress; "the servants showed great tact and discretion".

2. Subtly skillful handling of a situation.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Discreetness

Synonyms: circumspection (n), delicacy (n), diplomacy (n), discretion (n), finesse (n), prudence (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Discreetness

Language Translations for "discreetness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

takt (address, delicacy, tact), të qenët i përmbajtur, modesti (demureness, diffidence, modesty, unpretentiousness). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حكمة (aphorism, foresight, maxim, policy, proverb, prudence, sagacity, sapience, say, sobering, wholesomeness, wisdom), ‏حذر (admonish, advise, alert, alertness, be careful, be wise, beware, cagey, calculating, calculation, canny, care, careful, caution, cautious, cautiousness, chariness, chary, considerate, discreet, discretion, exhort, fabian, forewarn, guard, guarded, guarding, heedful, leery, look behind, look out, lookout, mind, on the alert, on the lookout, prudence, prudent, safe, shy, shyness, sound an alarm, suspicious, take care, vigilance, vigilant, wariness, warn, wary, watch, wide awake). (various references)

   

Czech

  

rozvážnost (deliberation). (various references)

   

French

  

vigilance (discretion), sagesse (discretion). (various references)

   

German

  

Verschwiegenheit (closeness, discretion, reticence, seclusion, secrecy, secretiveness). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φρόνηση (circumspection, prudence, wisdom), διακριτικότησ, διακριτικότητα (discretion). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

תבו " (discretion, intelligence, knowledge, prudence, reason, sagacity, understanding, wisdom), ז"ירות (care, carefulness, caution, discretion, look out, mind, observation, prudence, steady, take care, wariness). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

diszkréció (discretion, secrecy), tapintat (delicacy, diplomacy, discretion, lightness, tact). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iscreetnessday

   

Russian 

  

сдержанность (continence, demureness, insularity, moderation, modesty, reservation, reserve, restraint, reticence, self restraint, self-restraint, temperance), осторожность (care, caution, circumspection, discretion, heed, nicety, prudence, wariness, watchfulness), осмотрительность (canniness, care, circumspection, deliberation, discretion, wariness). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

diskretnost (discretion), diskrecija (discretion), sloboda odlučivanja (discretion). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

discreción (discretion, secrecy), prudencia (caution, circumspection, deliberation, discretion, prudence). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sır tutma (concealment, hugger mugger, huggermugger, keeping secret, reticence, seal, secrecy, secretion, secretiveness, silence), basiret (clairvoyance, foresight, perception), ağız sıkılığı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Discreetness

Derivations

Words beginning with "discreetness": discreetnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "discreetness": indiscreetness. (additional references)

Words containing "discreetness": indiscreetnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Discreetness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: discreetest, discretness. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Discreetness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: directnesses, discreteness.

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-i-n-r-s-s-s-t"

-1 letter: tirednesses.

-2 letters: directness, direnesses, dissenters, editresses, intercedes, residences, stridences, tendresses.

-3 letters: decenters, decentres, dissenter, dressiest, erectness, eternised, eternises, intercede, rednesses, reediness, residence, residents, sceneries, secretins, seediness, sesterces, sincerest, stridence, tendresse, teredines, terseness, tiredness.

-4 letters: centered, centeses, centesis, cisterns, cressets, decenter, decentre, descents, descries, desertic, desserts, destines, diereses, diesters, direness, discerns, discreet, discrete, dissects, dissents.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-e-i-n-r-s-s-s-t"
 

+2 letters: directednesses, discreetnesses, discretenesses, indirectnesses, indiscreetness.

 

+3 letters: considerateness, descriptiveness, destructiveness, reconditenesses, reductivenesses.

 

+4 letters: coordinatenesses, creditablenesses, decorativenesses, indiscreetnesses, productivenesses.

 

+5 letters: consideratenesses, descriptivenesses, destructivenesses, directionlessness, disrespectfulness, inconsiderateness, straitlacednesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Discreetness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 69 73 63 72 65 65 74 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101001 01110011 01100011 01110010 01100101 01100101 01110100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#115 &#99 &#114 &#101 &#101 &#116 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0073 0063 0072 0065 0065 0074 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

387585698471718680718585

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Discreetness"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, ‏الألبانية, ‏الألباني, albánský, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, Arnavut

Arabic

‏معجم, ‏قاموس, ‏الوضوحية في الشيء, ‏حد, ‏تحديد, ‏تعريف, ‏التحديد, ‏الإيضاحية, ‏ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ‏ترجمة, ‏إفتتانarabishte, ‏العربية, ‏عربي, ‏اللغة العربية, arabský, arabština, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, арабский, arapski, árabe, arapça, arap, araplara özgü

Czech

slovník, definice, překladçek, ‏تشيكي, ‏اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, ‏التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrëngjishte, frëng, franceze, ‏اللغة الفرنسية, ‏فرنسي, ‏الشعب الفرنسي, francouzský, francouzština, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, francia, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitiongjerman, ‏ضرب من الرقص, ‏جرماني, ‏الماني, ‏اللغة الألمانية, ‏المانية, nìmec, nìmecký, allemand, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, немецкий, germanski, alemán, alman

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση‏يوناني, ‏اللغة اليونانية, ‏الإغريقي, řek, řecký, řeètina, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum

Hebrew

אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתקhebraishte, ‏اليهودية, ‏اللغة العبرية, ‏يهودي, ‏عبري, ‏العبرية, hebrejský, hebrejec, hebrejka, hebrejština, hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hibru, hebreo, musevi, ibranice, ibrani

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás‏مجري, ‏المجري, ‏الهنغاري, ‏هنغاري, ‏اللغة الهنغارية, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, macarca, macar

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, ‏الروسية, ruština, ruský, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, Rusça

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenjeserbokroatisch, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónspanjoll, ‏اللغة الأسبانية, ‏الأسبانية, ‏أسباني, španìlský, španìlština, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümeturk, ‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, turecký, tureètina, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, türkçe, türk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, ‏الإنجليزية, ‏الأنكليزي, ‏إنكليزي, ‏ترجمة إنكليزية, ‏اللغة الإنكليزية, anglicky, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, angol, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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