Both Uses of
taciturn
in
Anna Karenina
- The other person was the doctor, who had also a kindly feeling for him; but there had long existed a taciturn understanding between them that both were weighed down by work, and always in a hurry.†
Part 5
- And the German, roused from his taciturnity, turned to Vronsky.
Part 6 *taciturnity = reserve and reticence (tendency not to communicate)
Definition:
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(taciturn) with a tendency to be reserved and not to talkeditor's notes: Synonym Comparison (if you're into word choice):
Consider using reticent rather than taciturn when the reluctance to talk is brought on by a particular situation rather than being a general disposition.