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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for reticence:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
reticence
    n 1: the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering
         anything more than necessary [syn: reserve, reticence,
         taciturnity]
2. 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]
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