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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
Sense 1
Meaning:
An atmosphere of depression and melancholy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
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)
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