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tact
The sense of touch; feeling.
(music) The stroke in beating time.
Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.
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.
(psychology) A verbaloperant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, or property of an object) and is maintained by nonspecific socialreinforcement (praise).
“One of the things I adore about my dissertation advisor is that his tactlessness means that he speaks the truth.”
“She has no friends and, due to her innate tactlessness, appears to lack the capacity to make any.”
“Mary Queen of Scots was recorded as very tall and beautiful but with a fiery temperament that often caused her to act on impulse and brought forth criticisms of tactlessness.”