Category:Taciturnity

Tac`i*tur"ni*ty, n. Etym: [l. taciturnitas: cf. F. taciturnité.]

Defn: habilual 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.