Synonym: reserve, taciturnity. Similar words: reticent, licence, driving licence, heretic, syncretic, theoretical, reticulate, theoretician. Meaning: ['retɪsəns] 
n. the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary.
n. the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary. 
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1. His reticence is more revealing than his speech.
2. His reticence about his past made them very suspicious.
3. Pearl didn't mind his reticence; in fact she liked it.
4. That night she had overcome her natural reticence and talked about their married life.
5. He breaks out of his normal reticence and tells me the whole story.
6. Even his softly spoken voice suggests a reticence toward off-stage communication.
7. Forgive me for my reticence but I know that many of the present-day inhabitants would not appreciate the need of it.
8. This is a family peculiarity-a reticence in expressing sentiment or deep feeling.
9. But this comradeship turned to a strange reticence during the last few days of the journey.
10. When it comes to abortion, the reticence of survey respondents is likely to be even greater.
11. The reticence which had surrounded the subject for so long had suddenly collapsed on all sides.
12. He realised that Marion's reticence was to protect the secret of her love affair with Ronald Travis.
13. His reticence are more revealing than his speech.
14. He always displays a certain reticence in discussing personal matters.
15. Her reticence was in sharp contrast to the glamour and star status of her predecessors.
16. There is a quite natural reticence to reveal it to outsiders.
17. Less information and reticence are characteristic of prizewinners this year.
18. Minded by corpulent nymphets with wings and frowns, in reticence they guard their deeply embedded doubts.
19. The mystery surrounding the identity of property owners can be partly explained by a typical Victorian reticence concerning financial matters.
20. I happen to think that behind much of that flamboyance in his earlier years there was a fund of timidity and reticence.
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21. There was, moreover, a vehemence of utterance and gesture curiously at variance with the reticence of our Virginians.
22. In contrast walking slowly into a room may indicate reticence or apprehension.
23. The internal affairs of a member state are no business of the union, hence the reticence in Brussels.
24. The book is written in spare prose that seems to want to strike a note of manly reticence.
25. This produces some lively interest-and some illuminating questions once the children overcome their inevitable reticence.
26. Lord Hamlyn eventually broke cover himself, giving ill health as the explanation for his reticence.
27. On occasion even the latter have lost their usual reticence and blundered.
28. In the talkfest every one spoke one's mind without reticence, fully affirming the achievements of our school made in the recent years.
29. In the past, non - OPEC firms would have more than compensated for the cartel's reticence to invest.
30. Wang Ho-fu spoke with his usual bantering smile, which contrasted strongly with Sun Chi-jen's reticence and taciturnity.
More similar words: reticent, licence, driving licence, heretic, syncretic, theoretical, reticulate, theoretician, pretence, innocence, translucence, acquiescence, obsolescence, retire, retina, retinue, retired, intelligence agency, license, preponderance of evidence, accretion, epicenter, discretion, retirement, licentious, beneficent, maleficent, decency, notice, magnificent.