taciturnity
English
Etymology
Noun
taciturnity (countable and uncountable, plural taciturnities)
- 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.
- (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
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