Definitions from Wiktionary (tact)
▸ noun: Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; keen perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances; the ability to say the right thing.
▸ noun: Propriety; manners (etiquette).
▸ noun: The sense of touch; feeling.
▸ noun: (music) The stroke in beating time.
▸ noun: (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).
▸ verb: (psychology) To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant).
▸ noun: (slang) Clipping of tactic. [A maneuver, or action calculated to achieve some end.]
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▸ noun: Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; keen perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances; the ability to say the right thing.
▸ noun: Propriety; manners (etiquette).
▸ noun: The sense of touch; feeling.
▸ noun: (music) The stroke in beating time.
▸ noun: (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).
▸ verb: (psychology) To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant).
▸ noun: (slang) Clipping of tactic. [A maneuver, or action calculated to achieve some end.]
Similar:
tactfulness,
touch,
sense,
delicacy,
sensibility,
human touch,
cunning,
savoir-faire,
discernment,
dexterity,
more...
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Adjectives:
great,
much,
little,
considerable,
consummate,
infinite,
exquisite,
delicate,
admirable,
usual,
utmost
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