The state or condition of being a cipher; the quality of being a coded message or secret writing.
From 'cipher' + '-hood' (a state or condition, as in childhood, likelihood). Creates an abstract noun describing the essence or condition of being a cipher.
Words ending in '-hood' usually describe human conditions (childhood, adulthood, sisterhood), so applying it to 'cipher' is delightfully strange—it imagines ciphers as a type of being with a shared identity and nature.
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