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Moroseness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Gloominess; sullenness; deep sadness. uncountable, usually

    "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."

  2. 2
    a sullen moody resentful disposition wordnet
  3. 3
    a gloomy ill-tempered feeling wordnet

Etymology

From morose + -ness.

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