moroseness
English
Etymology
Noun
moroseness (usually uncountable, plural morosenesses)
- Gloominess; sullenness; deep sadness.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Chapter VIII
- 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, Chapter VIII
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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, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
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