mental reservation

1. 1.

   an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly

   Synonymsreservationarriere pensee

   Broaderdoubt

Questions about mental reservation

What does mental reservation mean?

mental reservation means "an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly".

What is another word for mental reservation?

Close synonyms include reservation, arriere pensee. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mental reservation a common word?

mental reservation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.