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Definition: Furtiveness |
FurtivenessNoun1. A disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: FurtivenessSynonyms: sneakiness (n), stealthiness (n). (additional references) |
| "Furtiveness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Furtiveness" is used about 12 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% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "furtiveness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fshehtësi (conspiracy, privacy, privity, reserve, secrecy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مكر (archness, artfulness, artifice, brown, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deception, double dealing, feint, fish, foxiness, guile, ploy, roguery, ruse, sham, slyness, trick, wiliness), تملص (back out of, duck, elude, elusion, evade, evasion, hedge, shrink, shuffle off, swing the lead, worm, wriggle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | скритост, лукавство (archness, craft, craftiness, foxiness, guile, subtlety, wiliness), потайност (hugger mugger, mystery, reticence, secrecy, slyness), плахост (timidity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tajnost (confidence, hugger mugger, stealth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sournoiserie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | heimlichkeit (clandestineness, covertness, secrecy, secretiveness, stealth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λαθραιότησ (surreptitiousness), λαθραιότητα (surreptitiousness), λαθραίο (stealthiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חמק ות (elusiveness, evasiveness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | titokzatosság (eeriness, hugger mugger, hugger-mugger, mystery, mystique). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sleetchaght (disingenuous, disingenuousness), keiltynys (camouflage, harbourage, hiding, in concealment, latency, reconditeness, screening, secrecy, secretness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urtivenessfay скрытность (reserve, reticence, secretiveness). (various references) skrivenost (latency, secrecy). (various references) sigilo (secrecy, secret, secretiveness, stealth, stealthiness). (various references) sinsilik (hanky panky, insidiousness, slyness, sneaking), gizlilik (closeness, confidentiality, darkness, hugger mugger, huggermugger, obscurity, privacy, secrecy, stealth, stealthiness). (various references) tính chất ngấm ngầm, sự vụng trộm, sự lén lút tính chất bí mật. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "furtiveness": furtivenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Furtiveness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: furtivenness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-n-r-s-s-t-u-v" | |
-1 letter: interfuses. | |
-2 letters: infesters, interfuse, reinfuses, reinvests, sirventes, universes. | |
-3 letters: enuresis, esurient, ferniest, infester, infusers, inverses, nerviest, reinfuse, reinvest, retinues, reunites, revuists, rifeness, sentries, sirvente, snifters, stuivers, sureties, surfeits, surfiest, trueness, universe, ventures, venturis, versines, vestries, vestures. | |
-4 letters: enserfs, ensures, entires, entries, enviers, estrins, fervent, festers, festive, fetuses, finesse, fissure, fitness, frisees, furtive, fussier, fustier. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-i-n-r-s-s-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: furtivenesses. | |
+3 letters: figurativeness. | |
+5 letters: figurativenesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 75 72 74 69 76 65 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. ..- .-. - .. ...- . -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110101 01110010 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F u r t i v e n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0075 0072 0074 0069 0076 0065 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4087848675887180718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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