Reticence /(?)/

Ret·i·cence

Reticence

n.
  1. 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.
    Such fine reserve and noble reticence.
  2. A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject. (Rhet.)