[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

reticence \ret"icence\, n. l. reticentia: cf. f.
   r'eticence.
   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

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

reticence
     n : the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering
         anything more than necessary syn: reserve, taciturnity
see also:
reserve taciturnity 

[3] : 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

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