rare. [f. TACIT a. + -NESS.] The quality of being tacit; silence.
1657. W. Morice, Coena quasi Κοινὴ, xxxii. 298 To instruct or confirm our brethren, who by our tacitnesse might be scandalized, and either averted from the faith, or retarded therein.
1885. Pater, Marius the Epicurean, I. 15. That inward tacitness of mind esteemed so important by religious Romans.
