Synonyms for reticence
ret·i·cence

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1. reticence

   Synonyms:
   reserve, silentness, refrain, repressiveness

   Antonyms:
   unreserve, abandon, garrulity, freedom

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1. reserve, reticence, taciturnitynoun

   the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary

   Synonyms:
   stockpile, second-stringer, taciturnity, reservation, modesty, reserve, backlog, military reserve, substitute

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1. reticencenoun

   Synonyms:
   reserve, taciturnity

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1. reticencenoun

   Synonyms:
   reserve, uncommunicativeness, taciturnity

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1. List of paraphrases for "reticence":

   reluctance, unwillingness, restraint, reticent, hesitation

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1. Francesco Femia:

   I am worried there will be a reticence among some in the future to include those risks in their public reports for fear of having to deal with this political committee in the White House, because ultimately the heads of departments and agencies serve at the pleasure of the president.

2. George Eliot:

   Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter. Speech is often barren, but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

3. Press Secretary John Earnest:

   The president certainly has not indicated any reticence in using his executive authority to try and advance an agenda that benefits middle class Americans, now I don't want to leave you with the impression that there is some imminent announcement, there is not, at least that I know of.

4. Bob Rubin:

   The thing that maybe was a little surprising was the reticence of the defendants to step forward and do that. she couldn't say something that wasn't true.

5. Pope Francis:

   Without doubt, even moments of great difficulty, of tormented decisions of Christian and human prudence, that to some could have seemed like reticence, were instead attempts, humanly very difficult, to keep the light of humanitarian initiatives, of hidden but active diplomacy lit, in periods of greatest darkness and cruelty, in the hope of a possible opening of hearts.