Morosity

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality or state of being morose. uncountable, usually

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morosenessmoroseness

Etymology

From French morosité, from Latin morositas (“peevishness”), from morosus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from mos (“way, custom, habit, self-will”).

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