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TACITURNITY

Dictionary entry overview: What does taciturnity mean?

• TACITURNITY (noun)
The noun TACITURNITY has 1 sense:

1. the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary

Familiarity information: TACITURNITY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• TACITURNITY (noun)

Sense 1

taciturnity ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

The trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

reticence; taciturnity; reserve

Hypernyms ("taciturnity" is a kind of...):

uncommunicativeness (the trait of being uncommunicative)

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