Associations to the word «Taciturnity»

Wiktionary

TACITURNITY, noun. The trait of being taciturn.
TACITURNITY, noun. (legal) (Scotland) Failure to assert a legal right in a way that implies that it is being given up.

Dictionary definition

TACITURNITY, noun. The trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats