covertness

noun

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  1. stealth
  2. subterfuge
  3. reticence
Noun
  • This week, the Iranian army announced the deployment of 1,000 drones with advanced stealth and anti-fortification capabilities.
    — Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • It's also made for blue-water combat conditions with an ability to handle dangerous sea states with a high degree of stealth and survivability.
    — David Szondy, New Atlas, 6 Mar. 2025
Definition of stealth
Noun
  • Other times, the responsible parties engage in active subterfuge.
    — Sarah Stillman, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
  • His delivery of Mantel’s dialogue—modern, intelligent, bristling with implication and subterfuge—is mesmerizingly clear.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2025
Definition of subterfuge
Noun
  • His dad’s customary reticence meant Specktor had work to do.
    — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
  • His son visits Baghdad and Fallujah during summer vacations, puzzled by his family’s political reticence and by how his once prosperous cousins are impoverished by the sanctions regime of the 1990s.
    — Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Definition of reticence
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“Covertness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/covertness. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.

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