Tacitness

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The characteristic of being unexpressed or implicit plays a crucial role in how thoughts and feelings are communicated without words
2. This concept pertains to the essence of conveying meaning in the absence of explicit verbal communication
3. The quality of conveying information without direct expression encompasses both unspoken understanding and implicit knowledge that influences interactions

Etymology: Tacitness is a plain formation: the adjective "tacit" with the suffix "-ness," which turns an adjective into a noun meaning the state or quality of being that thing. The adjective "tacit" came into English from Latin "tacitus," the past participle of "tacere," meaning "to be silent," so the noun carries that original sense of silence with it. The suffix itself has a long ancestry. Its roots reach back through Proto-Germanic and Proto-Indo-European forms, and in Old English it appeared as "-nes," which later became "-nesse" in Middle English and finally "-ness" in modern English. Each stage shows the same job being done: attaching a quality to a base word and naming it as a thing.

Synonyms: silence, taciturnity, reticence, reserve, unspoken

Antonyms: expressiveness, verbosity, outspokenness, clarity, communicativeness