closetiness

English

Etymology

closety +‎ -ness

Noun

closetiness (uncountable)

1. The fact of being closety; reticence or secrecy about one's homosexuality.
   • 1979 August 11, Lawrence Mass, “Psychiatry on Trial”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 4, page 8:

     The admitted ("committed" or "overt") homosexual is far more exotic, controversial and threatening to the traditional psychoanalyst than one who exhibits the more familiar ego-dystonicity, however severe, even if that dystonicity is arguably cultural in origin. Closetyness can be tolerated in a way that an "uppity" positive and proud attitude will not be.