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Gloominess

noun

An atmosphere of depression and melancholy. Synonyms: gloom, glumness.

A feeling of melancholy apprehension. Synonyms: gloom, somberness, sombreness.

The quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness. Synonyms: lugubriousness, sadness.

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"Gloominess" Quotes from Famous Books

... scattered from the sheaves of the prosperous and prodigal. For this reason, too, the mother had carefully forborne to remind the children that this was Christmas eve. But they knew it too well, and they contrasted its gloominess and sorrow with the well-remembered anniversaries when this was a season of delight—the eve of promised pleasures, of feasts, of dances, and of presents. With this thought in their hearts they silently ...

— The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales • Francis A. Durivage

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Words linked to "Gloominess" : sombreness, nakedness, atmosphere, desolation, somberness, apprehensiveness, bareness, melancholy, gloomy, cloud, apprehension, glumness, dread, ambiance, bleakness, ambience, uncheerfulness