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Reticence

Reticence Meaning & Definition
Reticence Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Reticence?

[n] the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary

Synonyms | Synonyms for Reticence: reserve | taciturnity

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See Also | uncommunicativeness

Reticence In Webster's Dictionary

\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. 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.

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