Hypertext Webster Gateway: "taciturnity"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Taciturnity \Tac`i*tur"ni*ty\, n. [L. taciturnitas: cf. F.
taciturnit['e].]
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
taciturnity
n : the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering
anything more than necessary [syn: {reserve}, {reticence}]
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