[syn: gloominess, lugubriousness, sadness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gloominess \Gloom"i*ness\, n.
State of being gloomy. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
gloominess
n 1: an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded
the office" [syn: gloom, gloominess, glumness]
2: a feeling of melancholy apprehension [syn: gloom,
gloominess, somberness, sombreness]
3: the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness
[syn: gloominess, lugubriousness, sadness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "gloominess":
bleakness, cynicism, darkness, defeatism, dismalness, dreariness,
gloom, gloomy outlook, gravity, grimness, lower, lowering, malism,
negativism, nihilism, pessimism, retreatism, solemnity, somber,
somberness, sombrousness, uncheerfulness, wearifulness,
wearisomeness