tact

Meaning

1. 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.
2. Propriety; manners (etiquette).

diplomacy

address

niceness

witty

ability

artfulness statesmanship

faire

musical time

physical strength

savoir

quick wittedness

tactile sense

taking appropriate action

adaptability

intelligence

knowledge

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tækt/

table Borrowed from French tact, following a semantic shift from earlier tact (“sense of touch; feeling”), borrowed from Latin tāctus (“touched”). The borrowing was likely influenced by earlier English tact (“sense of touch; feeling”), which was a parallel borrowing directly from the Latin.

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