Difference between Closeness and Secretiveness

CLOSENESS vs SECRETIVENESS: NOUN

A feeling of being intimate and belonging together
The spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance
Close or warm friendship
Extreme stinginess
The state or quality of being close.
The state of being close.
The state of being physically close
The state of being friends
The state of being mean or stingy
Characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)
The shortest path between two vertices in a graph
Solitude, seclusion
The quality of being close and poorly ventilated
The state of being secretive

The trait of keeping things secret
Characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)
The character of being secretive; tendency or disposition to conceal; specifically, in phrenology, that quality the organ of which, when largely developed, is said to impel the individual toward secrecy or concealment. It is located at the inferior edge of the parietal bones. See cut under phrenology.
The quality of being secretive; disposition or tendency to conceal.
The faculty or propensity which impels to reserve, secrecy, or concealment.
The state or characteristic of being secretive.

Relationship, Narrowness, Proximity, Parsimoniousness, Niggardness, Niggardliness, Minginess, Parsimony, Tightfistedness, Tightness, Meanness, Secretiveness, Intimacy, Familiarity, Nearness

Arrogance, Paranoia, Underhandedness, Obfuscation, Evasiveness, Shadiness, Subterfuge, Duplicity, Opaqueness, Furtiveness, Reticence, Confidentiality, Silence, Closeness, Secrecy

Detente, Sympathy, Solidity, Rapprochement, Centrality, Propinquity, Strength, Relationship, Narrowness, Proximity, Niggardness, Parsimony, Tightness, Intimacy, Familiarity

Openness, Dishonesty, Unaccountability, Arrogance, Underhandedness, Evasiveness, Subterfuge, Duplicity, Opaqueness, Furtiveness, Reticence, Confidentiality, Silence, Closeness, Secrecy

Thus, they described more closeness than separation events.
Sexual closeness may also be awkward at first.
Positive Outlook, Interpersonal Closeness, Hostility, and Angry Impulsivity.
Relationship resources for relationships: Commitment, satisfaction, and closeness.
Will the price closeness to par really matter?
Closeness has its necessary counterpoint in flexible distance.
Examples of concerns about the closeness of the relationship included comments that the other party was sensitive or expected more closeness than possible.
Although grandparents and grandchildren often report mutual closeness, grandparents may report a greater degree of closeness than the younger generation.
Facebook communications on emotional closeness and smaller decreases in emotional closeness over time as a result of negative communications.
Emotional Closeness Models The final set of analyses examines individual differences in daily emotional closeness and changes in emotional closeness over time.

And conversations are always in danger of running out of gas, both from the imperative of secretiveness and from the positive lure of silence.
"Judging from the government's secretiveness there is clearly something about the Accenture deal the government doesn't want the public to know," said Kwan.
One of our first problems, therefore, is to confront the secretiveness and the silence which surround our attitudes toward intoxicants.
Blair, who was forced to confirm the deal Wednesday, denied accusations of secretiveness, but editorials Thursday were predominantly critical of him.
This will not be easy, because a strong feeling of secretiveness is a cultural characteristic in many foreign markets.
What is striking in this episode, and typical of John Ford all his life, was his secretiveness.
No, the boss faults the guy for secretiveness.
If it is so viewed, a climate of secretiveness and possibly hostility might easily be created.
In your relationship with the client, mistrust, hostility, or secretiveness may be signs of paranoia.
It is worth asking: Who benefits from the secretiveness?.