Thesaurus: reticence

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1. n. The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness.
2. n. A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.
3. n. the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
4. 1. The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness. Such fine reserve and noble reticence. Tennyson. 2. (Rhet.) A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.
5. A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while hemakes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.
6. n:100 n the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary