| Meaning | (law) the right to refuse / refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship. |
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| Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
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| Narrower | attorney-client privilege | The right of a lawyer to refuse to divulge confidential information from his client |
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| informer's privilege | The right of the government to refuse to reveal the identity of an informer |
| journalist's privilege | The right of a journalist to refuse to divulge sources of confidential information |
| marital communications privilege, husband-wife privilege | Neither spouse can divulge confidential communications from the other while they were married |
| physician-patient privilege | The right of a physician to refuse to divulge confidential information from a patient without the consent of the patient |
| priest-penitent privilege | The right of a clergyman to refuse to divulge confidential information received from a person during confession or similar exchanges |
| Broader | right | An abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature |
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| Spanish | derecho al silencio, privilegio |
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| Catalan | dret al silenci, privilegi |
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