GLOOMINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gloominess mean? 

• GLOOMINESS (noun)
  The noun GLOOMINESS has 3 senses:

1. an atmosphere of depression and melancholy

2. a feeling of melancholy apprehension

3. the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

  Familiarity information: GLOOMINESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLOOMINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An atmosphere of depression and melancholy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

gloom; gloominess; glumness

Context example:

gloom pervaded the office

Hypernyms ("gloominess" is a kind of...):

ambiance; ambience; atmosphere (a particular environment or surrounding influence)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gloominess"):

cloud (a cause of worry or gloom or trouble)

bareness; bleakness; desolation; nakedness (a bleak and desolate atmosphere)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A feeling of melancholy apprehension

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

gloom; gloominess; somberness; sombreness

Hypernyms ("gloominess" is a kind of...):

apprehension; apprehensiveness; dread (fearful expectation or anticipation)

melancholy (a feeling of thoughtful sadness)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

gloominess; lugubriousness; sadness

Hypernyms ("gloominess" is a kind of...):

uncheerfulness (not conducive to cheer or good spirits)

Derivation:

gloomy (depressingly dark)

gloomy (filled with melancholy and despondency)

 Context examples 

His manners, though serious, were mild; and his reserve appeared rather the result of some oppression of spirits than of any natural gloominess of temper.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)