reticencia

Definitions of reticencia
  1. noun
    the trait of being unwilling
    synonyms: desgana, noluntad, roncería
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    antonyms:
    buena voluntad, complacencia, grado, talante
    cheerful compliance
    types:
    indisposición, reluctancia
    a certain degree of unwillingness
    resistencia
    (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
    perezoso
    a disinclination to work or exert yourself
    type of:
    carácter, disposición, manera de ser, talante, temperamento
    your usual mood
  2. noun
    the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
    synonyms: reserva, taciturnidad
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    type of:
    mutismo
    the trait of being uncommunicative
  3. noun
    an indirect (and usually malicious) implication
    synonyms: indirecta, insinuación, vareta
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    type of:
    implicación
    an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection
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