Definition of "privacy"

privacy

/ˈpɹɪv.ə.si/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural privacies
1. (uncountable) The state of being secluded from the presence, sight, or knowledge of others.
  Quotations
  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.
  1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
  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.
  1944 November and December, “"Duplex Roomette" Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 324
2. (uncountable) Freedom from unwanted or undue disturbance of one's private life.
3. (uncountable) Freedom from damaging publicity, public scrutiny, surveillance, and disclosure of personal information, usually by a government or a private organization.
4. (countable, obsolete) A place of seclusion.
5. (obsolete, law) A relationship between parties seen as being a result of their mutual interest or participation in a given transaction, contract etc.
6. (obsolete) Secrecy.
7. (countable, obsolete) A private matter.