undersharing
Telling too little
Undersharing is withholding personal information or feelings when more openness would be appropriate or expected.
The opposite of oversharing, it describes someone who reveals too little about themselves in contexts where disclosure would be normal: His undersharing made it hard to connect with him.
The term implies a social or emotional deficit rather than healthy privacy.
Keeping from another
- guardedWary and restrained
- reservedRestrained in manner
- closed-offEmotionally unreachable, reserved
- bottling upContaining emotions internally
suppression · walls · distance · emotional unavailability · shutdown · detachment · stonewalling · deflecting
Freedom from observation
- discretionCareful judgment in speech
- reticenceHabitual verbal restraint
- introversionInward-directed temperament
- boundariesLines marking separation
mystery · enigmatic · aloof · selective · low-profile · quiet · unassuming · modest
Quality of protecting secrets
- need-to-knowAccess limited by necessity
- siloedKept apart, uncommunicating
- gatekeepingControlling access to something
- communication gapFailure to convey meaning
withholding
Keeping from another
- guardedWary and restrained
- reservedRestrained in manner
- closed-offEmotionally unreachable, reserved
bottling up · suppression · walls · distance · emotional unavailability · shutdown · detachment · stonewalling · deflecting · minimizing
privacy
Freedom from observation
- discretionCareful judgment in speech
- reticenceHabitual verbal restraint
- introversionInward-directed temperament
boundaries · mystery · enigmatic · aloof · selective · low-profile · quiet · unassuming · modest · humble
confidentiality
Quality of protecting secrets
- need-to-knowAccess limited by necessity
- siloedKept apart, uncommunicating
- gatekeepingControlling access to something
- miscommunicationmix-up, mixed signals, confusion, mixed messages, crossed wires
undersharingoversharing
Revealing too much personally
TMI · baring one's soul · verbal diarrhea · letting it all hang out · overexposure
undersharingopenness
Quality of being accessible
candor · expressiveness · effusiveness · garrulousness · talkativeness
share, shared, sharing, unshared, sharer, shareholder, shareable, sharers, oversharing