Irreticence
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Unreservedness; the property of being irreticent. countable, uncountable
"Quite unmoved these travellers sit reading—Thomas Hardy, perhaps—bridging abysses, preserving continuity, a little contemptuous of the excitement which is moving those who feel themselves liberated from one civilization, launched upon another to such odd gestures, such strange irreticences."
Example
More examples"Quite unmoved these travellers sit reading—Thomas Hardy, perhaps—bridging abysses, preserving continuity, a little contemptuous of the excitement which is moving those who feel themselves liberated from one civilization, launched upon another to such odd gestures, such strange irreticences."
Etymology
From ir- + reticence, apparently coined by Virginia Woolf in Mrs. Dalloway.
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