TACITURNITY

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 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

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

reserve; reticence; taciturnity

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

uncommunicativeness (the trait of being uncommunicative)

Derivation:

taciturn (habitually reserved and uncommunicative)

 Context examples 

She had obviously not heard anything to her advantage: and it seemed to me, from her prolonged fit of gloom and taciturnity, that she herself, notwithstanding her professed indifference, attached undue importance to whatever revelations had been made her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My cousins, full of exhilaration, were so eloquent in narrative and comment, that their fluency covered St. John's taciturnity: he was sincerely glad to see his sisters; but in their glow of fervour and flow of joy he could not sympathise.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Blanche Ingram, after having repelled, by supercilious taciturnity, some efforts of Mrs. Dent and Mrs. Eshton to draw her into conversation, had first murmured over some sentimental tunes and airs on the piano, and then, having fetched a novel from the library, had flung herself in haughty listlessness on a sofa, and prepared to beguile, by the spell of fiction, the tedious hours of absence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)