Definitions

taciturnity

[tas-i-tur-ni-tee] / ˌtæs ɪˈtɜr nɪ ti /

NOUN

reserve

Synonyms

STRONG

aloofness backwardness calmness caution coldness constraint control coyness demureness diffidence formality inhibition modesty quietness reluctance repression reservation restraint reticence secretiveness self-control self-restraint shyness silence suppression uncommunicativeness unresponsiveness

Antonyms

STRONG

agitation boldness freedom liberation

Example Sentences

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My Love of Solitude, Taciturnity, and particular way of Life, having raised a great Curiosity in all these Parts.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

Taciturnity is seldom more strikingly out of place than under such circumstances, and the penalties imposed took account not only of Penrod's tardiness but of his supposititious defiance of authority in declining to speak.

From Penrod and Sam by Tarkington, Booth

Taciturnity was becoming a habit with him, and already he was beginning to dislike his new partner.

From Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

B. Not for a fashionable novel.—"There he stood, like Taciturnity bowing at the feet of proud Authority."

From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick

My Obscurity and Taciturnity leave me at Liberty, without Scandal, to dine, if I think fit, at a common Ordinary, in the meanest as well as the most sumptuous House of Entertainment.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

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