reservedness
Emotional walls up
Reservedness is the quality of being reserved—restrained, reticent, or reluctant to share one's thoughts and feelings openly.
The word emphasizes the state or condition itself: His reservedness made it hard to know what he was thinking.
Reserved or reserve usually serve better; reservedness appears mostly in formal or academic contexts.
Inward-directed temperament
- shynessTendency toward social timidity
- bashfulnessTimid self-consciousness
- timidityFearful lack of courage
- diffidenceModest self-distrust
reticence · demureness · meekness · coyness · self-consciousness · inhibition · wallflower · mousy
Practice of hiding information
- confidentialityQuality of protecting secrets
- discretionCareful judgment in speech
- concealmentAct of hiding something
- non-disclosureMandated secrecy obligation
guardedness · closedness · evasiveness · uncommunicativeness · secretiveness · inscrutability · mysteriousness · opacity
Ability to restrain impulses
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
- moderationAvoidance of excess
- temperanceHabitual moderation in behavior
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
constraint · willpower · prudence · caution · composure · measured · judiciousness · containment
Fitting social conduct
- proprietyCorrectness of conduct
- courtesyRespectful, considerate behavior
- dignityInnate personal worth
- etiquetteRules of polite conduct
protocol · politeness · tact · diplomacy · discretion · graciousness · stateliness · solemnity
introversion
Inward-directed temperament
- shynessTendency toward social timidity
- bashfulnessTimid self-consciousness
- timidityFearful lack of courage
diffidence · reticence · demureness · meekness · coyness · self-consciousness · inhibition · wallflower · mousy · sheepish
secrecy
Practice of hiding information
- confidentialityQuality of protecting secrets
- discretionCareful judgment in speech
- concealmentAct of hiding something
non-disclosure · guardedness · closedness · evasiveness · uncommunicativeness · secretiveness · inscrutability · mysteriousness · opacity · impenetrability
self-control
Ability to restrain impulses
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
- moderationAvoidance of excess
- temperanceHabitual moderation in behavior
suppression · constraint · willpower · prudence · caution · composure · measured · judiciousness · containment · understatement
decorum
Fitting social conduct
etiquette · protocol · politeness · tact · diplomacy · discretion · graciousness · stateliness · solemnity · ceremoniousness
reservednessgregariousness
Love of being social
outgoingness · sociability · extroversion · openness · expansiveness
reservednessboldness
Fearless readiness to act
forwardness · arrogance · brashness · presumptuousness · assertiveness
reserve, reserved, preserved, reservation, reserves, preservation, unreserved, reservations, reserving