2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
reticence
n : the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering
anything more than necessary [syn: {reserve}, {taciturnity}]
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