MOROSENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moroseness mean? 

• MOROSENESS (noun)
  The noun MOROSENESS has 2 senses:

1. a gloomy ill-tempered feeling

2. a sullen moody resentful disposition

  Familiarity information: MOROSENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOROSENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A gloomy ill-tempered feeling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

glumness; moroseness; sullenness

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

moodiness (a sullen gloomy feeling)

Derivation:

morose (showing a brooding ill humor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A sullen moody resentful disposition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

moroseness; sourness; sulkiness; sullenness

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

ill nature (a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition)

Derivation:

morose (showing a brooding ill humor)

 Context examples 

Master Micawber's moroseness of aspect returned upon him again, and he demanded, with some temper, what he was to do?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That minister had always been my secret enemy, though he outwardly caressed me more than was usual to the moroseness of his nature.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Too long had he cultivated reticence, aloofness, and moroseness.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Very soon you seemed to get used to me: I believe you felt the existence of sympathy between you and your grim and cross master, Jane; for it was astonishing to see how quickly a certain pleasant ease tranquillised your manner: snarl as I would, you showed no surprise, fear, annoyance, or displeasure at my moroseness; you watched me, and now and then smiled at me with a simple yet sagacious grace I cannot describe.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)