Learn English – the word for a secret concerning one’s own life

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The following passage is found in The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton:

… there is a great deal of difference between keeping one’s own secret, and keeping a secret for another soul; so much so that I wish we had two words, that is, a word for a secret of one’s own making, and a word for a secret that one did not make, and perhaps did not wish for, but has chosen to keep, all the same.

Notwithstanding the speaker’s befuddlement, there is a word for a secret thrust upon you – confidence

(often confidences) A secret or private matter told to someone under a condition of trust:
the girls exchanged confidences about their parents

But is there a discrete word for a secret of one’s own?

Best Answer

The only thing I can think of is personal secret, but that's a descriptive combination rather than a precise term.

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