"privacity" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Blend of privacy + publicity Etymology templates: {{blend|en|privacy|publicity}} Blend of privacy + publicity Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} privacity (uncountable)
  1. Techniques used to maintain one's privacy. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-privacity-en-noun-mnOvvBcL Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "As publicity produces publicness, counter-publicity actions are needed to generate, maintain and protect privacy. I call these actions privacity (Splichal 2018). […] Privacity may be limited to the technical actions we perform online to select a specific 'privacy setting' on social network sites […] but it may also involve complex social actions such as personal social distancing, anonymisation, identity change […]"
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