Aposiopesis
- n. A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, “I declare to you that his conduct — but I can not speak of that, here.”
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.