Laconic vs Tacit - What's the difference?
laconic | tacit |
Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.
* Alexander Pope
* Welwood
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.
As adjectives the difference between laconic and tacit
is that laconic is using as few words as possible; pithy and concise while tacit is expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent.laconic
English
(Laconic phrase)Adjective
(en adjective)- I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long.
- His sense was strong and his style laconic .
Synonyms
* concise, pithy, terseAntonyms
* bombastic, long-winded, verbose, loquacious, prolixAnagrams
*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.