moroseness

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[edit] English

[edit] Noun

moroseness (uncountable)

1. Gloominess; sullenness; deep sadness.
   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, ch. 8,

     He acquired a slouching gait and ignoble look; his naturally reserved disposition was exaggerated into an almost idiotic excess of unsociable moroseness; and he took a grim pleasure, apparently, in exciting the aversion rather than the esteem of his few acquaintance.

[edit] References

• “moroseness” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
• moroseness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “moroseness” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.