1. reticence - Noun
2. reticence - Verb
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.
A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.
Source: Webster's dictionaryReticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it. M. R. James
There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life. Pamela Stephenson
There paused to shut the door A fellow called the Wind, With mystery before, And reticence behind. Bliss Carman
Wistaria sprays, as they trail in the breeze, suggest softness, gentleness, reticence. Disappearing and then appearing again in the early summer greenery, they have in them that feeling for the poignant beauty of things long characterized by the Japanese as mono no aware. Yasunari Kawabata
Declare your line of conduct without reticence. Egyptian Proverb
Reticence builds a fortress in the mind. Chinese Proverb