moroseness

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Etymology

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From morose +‎ -ness.

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moroseness (usually uncountable, plural morosenesses)

  1. Gloominess; sullenness; deep sadness.
    • 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: [], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, [], →OCLC:
      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.
    • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 217:
      With the typical moroseness of a dipping twitcher he turned to me, looking cynically at my spotlight, and said, `I don't like your chances, mate.'

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