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stealth noun [ stɛlθ ]

• cautious and surreptitious action or movement.
• "the silence and stealth of a hungry cat"
Similar: furtiveness, secretiveness, secrecy, surreptitiousness, sneakiness, slyness, covertness, stealthiness, clandestineness,
Opposite: openness,
• (chiefly of aircraft) designed in accordance with technology which makes detection by radar or sonar difficult.
• "a stealth bomber"
Origin: Middle English (in the sense ‘theft’): probably representing an Old English word related to steal, + -th2.


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