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/ˈpɹɪv.ə.si/ · noun
(uncountable) The state of being secluded from the presence, sight, or knowledge of others..
I need my privacy, so please stay out of my room.
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
It is realised that the old Pullman standard sleeper, with its convertible "sections", each containing upper and lower berths, and with no greater privacy at night than the curtains drawn along both sides of a middle aisle, has had its day.
It takes a village to rob one of a sense of privacy.
Privacy is assumed by many to be among common-law rights.
It ſeems more probable that Ovid vvas either the Confident of ſome other paſſion, or that he had ſtumbled by ſome inadvertency, upon the privacies of Livia, and ſeen her in a Bath: […]
Use privacy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Privacy means (uncountable) The state of being secluded from the presence, sight, or knowledge of others..
Common synonyms include privity, secret, seclusion, concealment.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I need my privacy, so please stay out of my room.
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