'Reticence' definitions:
Definition of 'reticence'
(from WordNet)
noun
The trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary [syn: reserve, reticence, taciturnity]
Definition of 'Reticence'
From: GCIDE
- Reticence \Ret"i*cence\, n. [L. reticentia: cf. F. r['e]ticence.]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Such fine reserve and noble reticence. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'reticence'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aloofness,
- backwardness,
- bashfulness,
- blankness,
- chilliness,
- coldness,
- constraint,
- coolness,
- detachment,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- distance,
- expressionlessness,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- guardedness,
- iciness,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- impersonality,
- inaccessibility,
- introversion,
- modesty,
- remoteness,
- repression,
- reserve,
- reservedness,
- restraint,
- reticency,
- retirement,
- standoffishness,
- subduedness,
- suppression,
- unaffability,
- unapproachability,
- uncongeniality,
- undemonstrativeness,
- unexpansiveness,
- withdrawal,
- withdrawnness