reticence

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. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

3. n. the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

5. A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while hemakes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject. Source: adambom

6. n:100 n the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary Source: ecdict

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