Taciturnity

Tacˊi-tur′ni-ty

,

Noun.

[L.

taciturnitas

: cf. F.

taciturnité

.]

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 answers which gave so much offense.

Macaulay.

,

Noun.

[L. taciturnitas, from taceo, to be silent.]

Habitual silence or reserve in speaking.

Too great loquacity, and too great taciturnity by fits.

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.

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)