aposiopesis
aposiopesis has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 11.
Definitions
- 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."
- n.. breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations)