tact

Definitions


[takt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- skill and sensitivity in dealing with others or with difficult issues
(e.g: the inspector broke the news to me with tact and consideration)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 17th century (denoting the sense of touch): via French from Latin tactus ‘touch, sense of touch’, from tangere ‘to touch’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries