| Reticence 1. (n.) Restraint; inhibition; refraining to speak that which is desired; uncommunicativeness. 2. (n.) A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothing on the subject. Thesaurus Entries 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 |