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French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin reticentia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁe.ti.sɑ̃s/
- Hyphenation: ré‧tic‧ence
Noun
réticence f (plural réticences)
- tight-lippedness, reticence
- (rhetoric) aposiopesis
- Synonym: aposiopèse
- (by extension) reluctance, misgivings
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