RETICENCE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary

Synonyms:

reserve; reticence; taciturnity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("reticence" is a kind of...):

uncommunicativeness (the trait of being uncommunicative)

Derivation:

reticent (temperamentally disinclined to talk)

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