taciturnity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The trait of being taciturn.

   Humphries broke out more freely into speech than he had done before, for his usual characteristic was that of taciturnity.

2. 2
   noun

   the trait of being uncommunicative

3. 3
   noun

   Failure to assert a legal right in a way that implies that it is being given up.

Etymology

From Middle English taciturnite, or alternatively from taciturn + -ity; both ultimately from Latin taciturnitās.