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n. The state or quality of being reticent; reserve.

n. The state or quality of being reluctant; unwillingness.

n. An instance of being reticent.

n. tight-lippedness, discretion, avoidance of saying too much

n. a silent and reserved nature

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.

n. The fact or character of being reticent; a disposition to keep, or the keeping of, one's own counsel; the state of being silent; reservation of one's thoughts or opinions.

n. In rhetoric, aposiopesis.

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

"Humphrey is particularly eloquent in speaking of that root among our other sins of helplessness which he calls reticence."

openness    talkativeness    ostentation    loquaciousness   

uncommunicativeness   

communicative    talkative   

reticent    reticently   

uncommunicativeness    reserve    silence    dumbness    secrecy    mumness    reservedness    taciturnity    reticency    secretiveness   

shyness    modesty    timidity    politeness    decorum    deference    self-control    reluctance    frankness    seriousness