Reticence
Reticence , noun
[Latin reticentia: compare French réticence.]
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.
(Rhetoric) A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.