Crossword-Solution: RETICENCE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Reticence | n. | 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. |
| Reticence | n. | A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RETICENCE | anagram | CENTERICE |
We have 30 clues for the answer “RETICENCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Uncommunicative state. | 1 answer |
| Tendency to keep silent | 1 answer |
| Tendency to be reserved | 1 answer |
| SOCIAL reserve | 1 answer |
| Restraint in speaking. | 1 answer |
| HABITUAL reserve in speech | 1 answer |
| Disposition to say little. | 1 answer |
| Reserved quality | 2 answers |
| Taciturnity | 3 answers |
| uncommunicativeness | 6 answers |
| retainment | 6 answers |
| keeping back | 7 answers |
| A DEEPLY-INGRAINED TENDENCY | 10 answers |
| muteness | 10 answers |
| retention | 15 answers |
| guardedness | 16 answers |
| judiciousness | 16 answers |
| furtiveness | 16 answers |
| Shyness? | 16 answers |
| secretiveness | 17 answers |
| evasiveness | 17 answers |
| Watchfulness | 19 answers |
| stealth | 24 answers |
| Vigilance | 25 answers |
| repression | 26 answers |
| Wariness | 28 answers |
| secrecy | 32 answers |
| Scheme | 61 answers |
| Restraint | 87 answers |
| Reserve | 95 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with RETICENCE (5)
But she forbore to utter this feeling, and the reticence of her tongue only made the loquacity of her face the more noticeable.
Then there was his unaccountable disappearance for weeks; there was von Horn’s strange reticence and seeming ignorance as to the circumstances which brought the young man to the island, or his equally unaccountable disappearance after having rescued her from Number One.
For a long time, even with the utmost discretion and reticence, it would have been impossible to make the facts public, but now the principal person concerned is beyond the reach of human law, and with due suppression the story may be told in such fashion as to injure no one.
Lapham wanted to know what the news from Irene was; he joined his wife in all her cheerful speculations, and tried to make her amends for his sullen reticence and irritability.
But it was on Roderick’s conscience that this air belied him, and he was too frank by nature, moreover, for permanent reticence on any point.
Quotes with RETICENCE (3)
In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.
Dasein *is authentically itself* in the primordial individualization of the reticent resoluteness which exacts anxiety of itself. *As something that keeps *silent*, authentic *Being*-one’s-Self is just the sort of thing that does not keep on saying ‘I’; but in its reticence it ‘*is*’ that thrown entity as which it can authentically be. The Self which the reticence of resolute existence unveils is the primordial phenomenal basis for the question as to the Being of the ‘I’. Onl…
It was in her garden that whatever physical grace Abigail St. Croix possessed asserted itself. She moved among her flowers with consummate natural fluidity, enjoying the incommunicable pleasures of growing things with the patience and concentration of a watchmaker. In this, her small, green country, surrounded by an embrasure of old Charleston brick, there were camellias of distinction, eight discrete varieties of azaleas, and a host of other flowers, but she directed her pri…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1952–2020).