A-pōs-i-o-pē'sis, n.

n. [Lat. aposiopesis, Gr. ἀποσιώπησις, from ἀποσιωπᾶν, to be quite silent, from ἀπό, from, and σιωπᾶν, to be silent.] (Rhet.) 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 we must not now lose time in words.”