Tăç'i-tûrn'i-ty, n.

n. [Lat. taciturnitas, Fr. taciturnité, Pr. taciturnitat, Sp. taciturnidad, It. taciturnità.] Habitual silence or reserve in speaking. “Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits.” Arbuthnot.

The taciturnity and the short answers which gave so much offense. Macaulay.