Why “taciturnity” is a great word
TACITURNITY — [Noun] The quality or state of being habitually reserved or uncommunicative in speech. From Middle English taciturnite, from Middle French taciturnité, from Latin taciturnitās, from taciturnus ("silent, quiet") + -itās ("-ity"). Unlike "laconic," which denotes a pointed, often strategic brevity, or "reticence," which implies a temporary withholding, taciturnity is a deeper, more permanent character of silence. It is the granite face of a farmer who has watched the sky for drought, the steady, scentless heat of banked coals in a long-cold hearth, and the closed ledger of a private grief—a silence not of emptiness, but of profound and weathered presence, where quiet becomes the architecture of the self.