privacy

noun7

1. •
   a situation in which no one else can see you or find out what you are doing

   • I need my privacy, so please stay out of my room.
2. •
   Freedom from unwanted or undue disturbance of one's private life.

   • Those prying neighbours have robbed me of my sense of privacy.
3. •
   Freedom from damaging publicity, public scrutiny, surveillance, and disclosure of personal information, usually by a government or a private organization.

   • Privacy is assumed by many to be among common-law rights.
4. •
   (no longer used) A place of seclusion.
5. •
   (no longer used) Secrecy.
6. •
   (no longer used) A private matter.

   • 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: […] — 1680
7. •
   (no longer used) A relationship between parties seen as being a result of their mutual interest or participation in a given transaction, contract etc.