taciturnity

English

Etymology

taciturn +‎ -ity

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

Czech: mlčenlivost f
Dutch: zwĳgzaamheid (nl) f
German: Schweigsamkeit (de) f

Greek: εχεμύθεια (el) f (echemýtheia), ολιγολογία (el) f (oligología), λακωνικότητα (el) f (lakonikótita)
Spanish: taciturnidad f
Swedish: tystlåtenhet (sv), fåordighet (sv), ordkarghet

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