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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary;
[syn: reserve, reticence, taciturnity]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] Such fine reserve and noble reticence. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

reticence n 1: the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary [syn: reserve, reticence, taciturnity]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

40 Moby Thesaurus words for "reticence": 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