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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary;
[syn: reserve, reticence, taciturnity]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Taciturnity \Tac`i*tur"ni*ty\, n. [L. taciturnitas: cf. F. taciturnit['e].] Habitual silence, or reserve in speaking. [1913 Webster] The cause of Addison's taciturnity was a natural diffidence in the company of strangers. --V. Knox. [1913 Webster] The taciturnity and the short answers which gave so much offense. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

taciturnity n 1: the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary [syn: reserve, reticence, taciturnity]