06674028-n 'something that is supposed to be secret but is generally known';
 
English open secret
Italian segreto di Pulcinella
Japanese 公然の秘密
Definitions
Japanese
秘密であると思われているが一般に知られている何か
彼らの情事は公然の秘密だった
English
something that is supposed to be secret but is generally known
their love affair was an open secret
Relations
Hypernym: secret
Semantic Field: communicationn
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SUMO: ⊂ NormativeAttribute

TempoWN: (Past: 0.001; Present: 0.325; Future: 0.000)

SentiWN: (+0.00 -0.00) MLSentiCon: (+0.25 -0.12)


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