- 1防備心；說話不露底
Caginess is the closed, careful quality itself — the habit of not showing what you know or what you will do. You hear it about people, voices, and sometimes about companies or teams that will not give a straight answer. It is a little informal, the same family as cagey, and it often carries a small feeling of distrust: not “this person is wise,” but “this person is holding something back.” Though actually, caginess is not always a bad thing. In a hard talk, a little caginess can just mean you are not ready to say everything yet. It is more a written word; in speech people more often just say someone is being cagey.
組成From cagy + -ness. Cagy (cagey) is the adjective; -ness turns that way of being into a noun.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
caginessnoun
- 1
The quality of being cagey.
- And as a much better NYT comment piece on queerbaiting put it last year: “As self-serving as some celebrity caginess can be, you can’t build a world in which everyone feels free to self-identify by ordering everyone to self-identify.”
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