taciturnity

English

Etymology

taciturn +‎ -ity, from Latin taciturnitas.

Noun

taciturnity (countable and uncountable, plural taciturnities)

1. The trait of being taciturn.
   • 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter VI, page 69:

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

   • 2021, Adam Liptak, Justice Clarence Thomas, Long Silent, Has Turned Talkative, in: The New York Times, May 3 2021

     Once he is back on the bench, will Justice Thomas revert to his usual taciturnity?

2. (law, Scotland) Failure to assert a legal right in a way that implies that it is being given up.

Translations

The state of being taciturn

• Catalan: taciturnitat f
• Czech: mlčenlivost f
• Dutch: zwijgzaamheid (nl) f
• German: Schweigsamkeit (de) f
• Greek: εχεμύθεια (el) f (echemýtheia), ολιγολογία (el) f (oligología), λακωνικότητα (el) f (lakonikótita)
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• Portuguese: taciturnidade f
• Serbo-Croatian: šutljivost (sh) f, mučaljivost f
• Spanish: taciturnidad f
• Swedish: tystlåtenhet (sv), fåordighet (sv), ordkarghet
• Turkish: sessizlik (tr), suskunluk (tr)