Closemouthed vs Tacit - What's the difference?
closemouthed | tacit | Related terms |
reticent, secretive or uncommunicative
* 1852 James Fenimore Cooper - Home as found
* 2001 C. R. Anderegg - Sierra Hotel: flying Air Force fighters in the decade after Vietnam
Expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent.
* 1983 , Stanley Rosen, Plato’s'' Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image , page 62:
* 2004 , Developing Democracy in Europe: An Analytical Summary (Lawrence Pratchett, ?Vivien Lowndes; ISBN 9287155798):
(logic) Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.
Closemouthed is a related term of tacit.
As adjectives the difference between closemouthed and tacit
is that closemouthed is reticent, secretive or uncommunicative while tacit is expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent.closemouthed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- As much so as possible; they have hardly a way that you would like, my dear ma'am; and are as closemouthed as if they were afraid of committing themselves.
- Instructors were notoriously closemouthed about their gunnery techniques.
tacit
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- tacit consent : consent by silence, or by not raising an objection
- He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer.