sullenness; gloominess; irritability
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Moroseness Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
Sourness of temper; sulenness.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutSourness of temper; sulenness.
moroseness
\mo*rose"ness\, n. sourness of temper; sulenness. learn good humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degrees of pride and moroseness. watts.
note: moroseness is not precisely peevishness or fretfulness, though often accompained with it. it denotes more of silence and severity, or ill-humor, than the irritability or irritation which characterizes peevishness.
Noun
1. a gloomy ill-tempered feeling
(synonym) glumness, sullenness
(hypernym) moodiness
2. a sullen moody resentful disposition
(synonym) sulkiness, sullenness, sourness
(hypernym) ill nature
Moroseness Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Melancholia (from Greek μελαγχολία - melancholia, "sadness", literally black bile), also lugubriousness, from the Latin lugere, to mourn; moroseness, from the Latin morosus, self-willed, fastidious habit; wistfulness, from old English wist: intent, or saturnine, (see Saturn), in contemporary usage, is a mood disorder of non-specific depression, characterized by low levels of both enthusiasm and eagerness for activity.
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