{i} tendency to remain silent, tendency to keep quiet; quality of having self-restraint, quality of being reserved
A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject
the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
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