Dictionary Definition
moroseness
Noun
1 a gloomy ill-tempered feeling [syn: glumness, sullenness]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- 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.
- 1847, Emily Brontë,
Wuthering Heights, ch. 8,
References
- Webster 1828
- Webster 1913
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