CONCEALMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does concealment mean? 

• CONCEALMENT (noun)
  The noun CONCEALMENT has 3 senses:

1. the condition of being concealed or hidden

2. a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something

3. the activity of keeping something secret

  Familiarity information: CONCEALMENT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCEALMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The condition of being concealed or hidden

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

concealment; privacy; privateness; secrecy

Hypernyms ("concealment" is a kind of...):

isolation (a state of separation between persons or groups)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "concealment"):

covertness; hiddenness (the state of being covert and hidden)

bosom (the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept)

confidentiality (the state of being secret)

hiding (the state of being hidden)

Derivation:

conceal (prevent from being seen or discovered)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A covering that serves to conceal or shelter something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

concealment; cover; covert; screen

Context example:

the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background

Hypernyms ("concealment" is a kind of...):

covering (an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "concealment"):

blind (a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters))

camouflage (device or stratagem for concealment or deceit)

shoji (a translucent screen made of a wooden frame covered with rice paper)

stalking-horse (screen consisting of a figure of a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The activity of keeping something secret

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

concealing; concealment; hiding

Hypernyms ("concealment" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "concealment"):

mask (activity that tries to conceal something)

money laundering (concealing the source of illegally gotten money)

stealing; stealth (avoiding detection by moving carefully)

smoke screen; smokescreen (an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure)

burial; burying (concealing something under the ground)

cover-up (concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public)

cover (a false identity and background (especially one created for an undercover agent))

cover; covering; masking; screening (the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it)

camouflage; disguise (the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance)

Derivation:

conceal (hold back; keep from being perceived by others)

 Context examples 

It does not lend itself to concealment.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why did he so quietly submit to the concealment Mr. Rochester enforced?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The room does not lend itself to concealment, which is as well, as it is the less likely to arouse suspicion.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her mind, disposition, opinions, and habits wanted no half-concealment, no self-deception on the present, no reliance on future improvement.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She proved to be the daughter of a tradesman, rich enough to afford her the comfortable maintenance which had ever been hers, and decent enough to have always wished for concealment.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

There may be things which would frighten her to hear; and yet to conceal them from her might be worse than to tell her if once she suspected that there was any concealment.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Perhaps this concealment, this disguise was beneath me; it is done, however, and it was done for the best.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman’s dress.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“—was induced and persuaded by me,” I went on, swallowing that colder designation, “to consent to this concealment, and I bitterly regret it.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So I made myself respectable and tried to slip in behind Mrs. Kirke, but as she is short and I'm tall, my efforts at concealment were rather a failure.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)