Resistance vs Reticence - What's the difference?
resistance | reticence |
The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
(physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.
An underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation.
tight-lippedness, discretion, avoidance of saying too much
a silent and reserved nature
As nouns the difference between resistance and reticence
is that resistance is the act of resisting, or the capacity to resist while reticence is tight-lippedness, discretion, avoidance of saying too much.resistance
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Alternative forms
* resistaunce (obsolete)Noun
citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.}}