#reticence

• Aposiopesis — A scholarly form, direct transliteration, or bookish stylistic variant for the figure of speech known as aposiopesis or reticence, consisting of the sudden breaking off of a speech or sentence under the influence of a powerful emotion (fear, rage, modesty), leaving the continuation to the imagination of the reader or audience. In text, this syntactic figure is graphically marked by ellipses or a dash.