[syn: sulkiness, sullenness, moroseness, sourness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Moroseness \Mo*rose"ness\, n.
Sourness of temper; sulenness.
[1913 Webster]
Learn good humor, never to oppose without just reason;
abate some degrees of pride and moroseness. --I. Watts.
[1913 Webster]
Note: Moroseness is not precisely peevishness or fretfulness,
though often accompanied with it. It denotes more of
silence and severity, or ill-humor, than the
irritability or irritation which characterizes
peevishness.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
moroseness
n 1: a gloomy ill-tempered feeling [syn: moroseness,
glumness, sullenness]
2: a sullen moody resentful disposition [syn: sulkiness,
sullenness, moroseness, sourness]