About The Word Reticence
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Reticence
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What's The Definition Of Reticence?
[n] the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
Synonyms | Synonyms for Reticence: reserve | taciturnity Related Terms | Find terms related to Reticence: 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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