irreticence

Etymology

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

irreticence means Unreservedness; the property of being irreticent. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why this word is great

IRRETICENCE — [Noun] The quality of being unreserved or lacking in restraint, especially in speech. Formed within English from the prefix ir- (a variant of in-, meaning 'not') and the noun reticence (from Latin reticentia, 'silence, reserve'). Unlike loquacity, which implies a garrulous, often tiresome excess, or frankness, which suggests a pointed, context-bound honesty, irreticence is a neutral, ambient condition of openness. It is the unedited diary entry, the confidential shared with a stranger on a train, the secret told not for betrayal but because the vessel was too full to contain it—a quiet testament to the human compulsion to let the interior world spill out, uncurated, into the light.

noun

Unreservedness; the property of being irreticent.“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.”