tacit
adj/ˈtæsɪt/
Etymology Borrowed from late Middle French tacite, or from Latin tacitus (“that is passed over in silence, done without words, assumed as a matter of course, silent”), from tacere (“to be silent”).
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Implied, but not made explicit, especially through silence.
- tacit consent
- Our tacit treaty with Miss Maudie was that we could play on her lawn, eat her scuppernongs if we didn’t jump on the arbor, and explore her vast back lot,1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
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- He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer.1983, Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image, page 62:
- […] disengagement represents a tacit rejection of governing institutions and processes, especially among young people, […]2004, Lawrence Pratchett, Vivien Lowndes, editors, Developing Democracy in Europe: An Analytical Summary, →ISBN:
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Human sciences, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Sciences Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.
- Derived terms
- tacitly, tacitness, tacit programming, tacit collusion
- Related terms
- tacet, taciturn, taciturnity, taciturnly, tacenda