irreticence

English

Etymology

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

Noun

irreticence (countable and uncountable, plural irreticences)

1. Unreservedness; the property of being irreticent.
   • 1923 June 6, “To Spain”, in The New Republic, volume 35, page 39:

     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.