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irreticence

noun

Etymology

From ir- + reticence, apparently coined by Virginia Woolf in Mrs. Dalloway.

  1. derived from *tak-✻
  2. derived from reticentia — “act of keeping silent, silence; aposiopesis”
  3. borrowed from réticence — “act of keeping silent, silence; reserve; aposiopesis”
  4. formed as irreticence — “in- + reticence”

Definitions

  1. Unreservedness

    Unreservedness; the property of being irreticent.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for irreticence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA