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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a gloomy ill-tempered feeling;
[syn: moroseness, glumness, sullenness]

2. a sullen moody resentful disposition;
[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]