reticence

[Ret·i*cence]

Reticence is a kind of reserve, wanting to avoid communication and not wanting to offer any more information than is necessary.

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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.

Noun
the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary


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.

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.


Reticence

Ret"i*cence , n. [L. reticentia: cf. F. r'82ticence.] 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.
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.

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.

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