noun
Meaning 1
The trait of being taciturn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
taciturnity
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noun
Meaning 2
Failure to assert a legal right in a way that implies that it is being given up.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, countable, uncountable
Topics: law
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noun
Meaning 3
the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: reserve, reticence
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: uncommunicativeness
History
Etymology
From Middle English taciturnite, or alternatively from taciturn + -ity; both ultimately from Latin taciturnitās.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: taciturnitat — state of being taciturn
- Czech: mlčenlivost — state of being taciturn
- Dutch: zwijgzaamheid — state of being taciturn
- French: taciturnité — state of being taciturn
- German: Schweigsamkeit — state of being taciturn
- Greek: εχεμύθεια (echemýtheia) — state of being taciturn
- Greek: ολιγολογία (oligología) — state of being taciturn
- Greek: λακωνικότητα (lakonikótita) — state of being taciturn
- Italian: taciturnità — state of being taciturn
- Portuguese: taciturnidade — state of being taciturn
- Serbo-Croatian: šutljivost — state of being taciturn
- Serbo-Croatian: mučaljivost — state of being taciturn
- Spanish: taciturnidad — state of being taciturn
- Swedish: tystlåtenhet — state of being taciturn
- Swedish: fåordighet — state of being taciturn
- Swedish: ordkarghet — state of being taciturn
- Turkish: sessizlik — state of being taciturn
- Turkish: suskunluk — state of being taciturn
- Ukrainian: мовчазність (movčaznistʹ) — state of being taciturn