Silence; freedom from noise; abstinence from speech, taciturnity.

The fact, state, or habit of abstaining or refraining from speaking (sometimes with reference to a particular matter) or other utterance; the fact…

taciturnity.

Habitual silence or disinclination to conversation; reservedness in speech; a taciturn character or state.

Reticence; retiring nature; an instance of this. Obsolete.

colloquial. Refusal to speak, silence. Obsolete.

Maintenance of silence; avoidance of or a tendency to refrain from speech or utterance; inability to speak or make a sound.

Reluctance to speak about something or to express personal thoughts and feelings freely; maintenance of silence; the state or quality of being…

= reticence, n. (in various senses).

Reservedness in discourse or manner; = reserve, n. 6. Now rare.

A short speech; the quality of speaking little.

Avoidance of plain speaking or openness; reticence; circumspection or discretion in speech or writing; (occasionally) an instance of this. Also…

The state or quality of being reticent or reserved. Cf. costive, adj. 2. Now somewhat archaic.

The state or condition of being mute or silent; refusal to speak; inability or failure to produce normal speech or vocalizations, esp. as a result of…

The quality of being incommunicable. Incommunicativeness, reticence, taciturnity.

Want of eloquence; the quality of being ineloquent; (in Carlyle) the reverse of eloquence or speaking out; silence.

= incommunicableness, n.

(un-, prefix1 affix 8.)

Silence; reticence.

= mumchanceness, n.