tacts

Noun (1)

tact (uncountable)

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 and avoid statements that will give offence or pain even if true.
   • By the use of tact, she was able to calm her jealous husband.

   Synonyms:

   sensitivity, consideration, diplomacy, tactfulness, discretion

2. Propriety; manners (etiquette).

Noun (2)

tact (countable and uncountable, plural tacts)

1. The sense of touch; feeling.
   • Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to tact as well as sight?1829, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […]...
2. The stroke in beating time.
3. 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).
   • Skinner (1957) saw such tacts as responses that are reinforced socially.2013, Jacob L. Gewirtz, William M. Kurtines, Jacob L. Lamb, Intersections With Attachment

See all 6 meanings of tact