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reticence 音标拼音: [r'ɛtɪsəns] n. 无言,沉默,谨慎 无言,沈默,谨慎 reticence n 1: the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary [ synonym: { reserve}, { reticence}, { taciturnity}] 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] 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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