réticence

Meaning

1. tight-lippedness, reticence
2. reluctance, misgivings

Concepts

reluctance

reticence

unwillingness

aposiopesis

disinclination

hesitancy

hesitation

indisposition

halfheartedness

grudgingness

silence

involuntariness

vacillation

automatism

averseness

loathness

misgivings

Hyphenated as

ré‧tic‧ence

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʁe.ti.sɑ̃s/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin reticentia.

Sentences

Gadbois fait bien plutôt de l’aposiopèse un synonyme de la figure nommée réticence .

Gadbois makes aposiopesis a synonym for the figure called reluctance.