anti-secrecy

adjective

an·​ti-se·​cre·​cy ˌan-tē-ˈsē-krə-sē  ˌan-tī- 

variants or less commonly antisecrecy

: serving or intended to prevent or restrict the concealment of information especially by governments

anti-secrecy laws

These antisecrecy trends and inclinations sometimes interact to convince administrations, Congresses, and intelligence agency heads that they must release various historical intelligence documents.

—Michael Warner

Examples of anti-secrecy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Government in the Sunshine Act Passed partly in response to the Watergate scandal, the Government in the Sunshine Act and other anti-secrecy measures were enacted to make sure that government agencies’ deliberations were open to public scrutiny. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 16 Apr. 2026

Even so, the anti-secrecy platform transformed how information reaches the public, twice. — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 26 June 2024

The anti-secrecy organization’s earliest files pertaining to Assange’s activities online date back 30 years. — Dell Cameron Matt Burgess, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1894, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anti-secrecy

• secrecy