About The Word Moroseness
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Moroseness
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What's The Definition Of Moroseness?
[n] a sullen moody resentful disposition
[n] a gloomy ill-tempered feeling Synonyms | Synonyms for Moroseness: glumness | sourness | sulkiness | sullenness | sullenness Related Terms | Find terms related to Moroseness: See Also | ill nature | moodiness Moroseness In Webster's Dictionary \Mo*rose"ness\, n.
Sourness of temper; sulenness.
Learn good humor, never to oppose without just reason;
abate some degrees of pride and moroseness. --I. Watts.
Note: Moroseness is not precisely peevishness or fretfulness,
though often accompained with it. It denotes more of
silence and severity, or ill-humor, than the
irritability or irritation which characterizes
peevishness.
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