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The trait of being uncommunicative
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taciturnity
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Middle French taciturnité , from Latin taciturnitatem (nominative taciturnitas ) "a being or keeping silent," from taciturnus "disposed to be silent," from tacitus "silent" (see tacit ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The trait of being taciturn. 2 (cx legal Scotland English) Failure to assert a legal right in a way that implies that it is being given up.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Taciturnity \Tac`i*tur"ni*ty\, n. [L. taciturnitas: cf. F. taciturnit['e].] Habitual silence, or reserve in speaking. The cause of Addison's taciturnity was a natural diffidence in the company of strangers. --V. Knox. The taciturnity and the short ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary [syn: reserve , reticence ]
Usage examples of taciturnity.
Andromeda about the period of the birth of Stephen Dedalus, and in and from the constellation of Auriga some years after the birth and death of Rudolph Bloom, junior, and in and from other constellations some years before or after the birth or death of other persons: the attendant phenomena of eclipses, solar and lunar, from immersion to emersion, abatement of wind, transit of shadow, taciturnity of winged creatures, emergence of nocturnal or crepuscular animals, persistence of infernal light, obscurity of terrestrial waters, pallor of human beings.
It was not, he concluded, an affair of connubial recriminations, which might typically have disrupted a typical taciturnity.
Entrenched behind his own taciturnity and protected by all the power of Quenco, he had become a semi-mythical bogey man, an intermittent subject for attacks by such writers as Westbrook Pegler, a name that the average public remembered without being quite sure why.
You found the same collegial spirit, with its masonic taciturnity and instinctive discretion, the same camaraderie and grit, the same alcohol reliance.
And Soames gave him askance a look of dogged dislike--for in spite of his fastidious air and that supercilious, dandified taciturnity, Soames, with his set lips and squared chin, was not unlike a bulldog.
Captain Nemo’s isolation, his altered spirits, especially since the fight with the poulps, his taciturnity, all made me view things in a different light.
Captain Nemo's isolation, his altered spirits, especially since the fight with the poulps, his taciturnity, all made me view things in a different light.