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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31. Some reckon its failure to unearth masses of new information is down to a mix of mendacious reticence on the part of key witnesses and the pusillanimity of their inquisitors.
32. But why the reticence when I inquired about the Hainan development?
33. There is a quite natural reticence for them to reveal it to outsiders.
34. This was the answer to Ashley's reticence,[www.Sentencedict.com] to his strange conduct.
35. A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
36. Australian Prime Minister John Howard, a close U.S. ally , showed no such reticence.
37. He broke out of his normal reticence and told me the whole story.
38. The explanation for this reticence is simple: self-criticism is an admirable trait in human beings but a potentially fatal one in politicians.
39. tolerance - corporation, mom's fortitude - tenacious, mom's reticence, and mom's painstaking - simplicity are always the examples of ...
40. Both parties are deservedly upbraided for their reticence on exactly how to cut the fiscal deficit.
41. It was impossible to break through her barricade of reticence.
42. Reticence springs from self - control and to control oneself in this is a true triumph.
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.