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privacies

[prahy-vuh-see; Brit. also priv-uh-see]

noun, plural -cies.

1.

the state of being private; retirement or seclusion.

2.

the state of being free from intrusion or disturbance in one's private life or affairs: the right to privacy.

3.

4.

Archaic. a private place.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English privace. See private, -acy

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"Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty linen, always this air of alertness for personal happenings, personalities, personalities, personalities. Always this subtle criticism and appraisal of other people, this analysis of other people's motives. If anatomy presupposes a corpse, then psychology presupposes a world of corpses. Personalities, which means personal criticism and analysis, presuppose a whole world laboratory of human psyches waiting to be vivisected. If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology."

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