Noun

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The state or degree of being ready.

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Noun

(en noun)

The sense of touch; feeling.

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Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to tact as well as sight?

* J. Le Conte

Now, sight is a very refined tact .

(music) The stroke in beating time.

Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.

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He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and boldness to those of Richelieu, and had carried them into effect with a tact and wariness worthy of Mazarin.

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A tact' which surpassed the '''tact''' of her sex as much as the '''tact''' of her sex surpassed the ' tact of ours.

The ability to deal with embarrassing situations carefully and without doing or saying anything that will annoy or upset other people; careful consideration in dealing with others to avoid giving offense; the ability to say the right thing.

By the use of tact , she was able to calm her jealous husband.

I used tact when I told my fat uncle that his extra weight made him look better.

(psychology) A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, or property of an object) and is maintained by nonspecific social reinforcement (praise).

* 2013 , Jacob L. Gewirtz, William M. Kurtines, Jacob L. Lamb, Intersections With Attachment

Skinner (1957) saw such tacts as responses that are reinforced socially.