Taciturnity

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The trait of being taciturn. countable, uncountable

    "Humphries broke out more freely into speech than he had done before, for his usual characteristic was that of taciturnity."

  2. 2
    the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary wordnet
  3. 3
    Failure to assert a legal right in a way that implies that it is being given up. Scotland, countable, uncountable

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"Humphries broke out more freely into speech than he had done before, for his usual characteristic was that of taciturnity."

Etymology

From Middle English taciturnite, or alternatively from taciturn + -ity; both ultimately from Latin taciturnitās.

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