taciturnity

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TACITURN'ITY, noun [Latin taciturnitas, from taceo, to be silent.] Habitual silence or reserve in speaking. Too great loquacity, and too great taciturnity by fits.
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