Usage Note
Indiscrezione can mean either the abstract quality of lacking discretion (la sua indiscrezione è nota — her indiscretion is well known) or a concrete indiscrete act, especially a leak of information (l'indiscrezione di un giornalista — a journalist's leak). The plural is indiscrezioni. The related adjective is indiscreto (indiscreet).
Examples
"L'indiscrezione del ministro ha causato uno scandalo."
Natural Translation
The minister's indiscretion caused a scandal.

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