MOODINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moodiness mean? 

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

1. a sullen gloomy feeling

2. having temperamental and changeable moods

  Familiarity information: MOODINESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOODINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sullen gloomy feeling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

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

distemper; ill humor; ill humour (an angry and disagreeable mood)

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

glumness; moroseness; sullenness (a gloomy ill-tempered feeling)

Derivation:

moody (showing a brooding ill humor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having temperamental and changeable moods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

disposition; temperament (your usual mood)

Derivation:

moody (subject to sharply varying moods)

 Context examples 

But I believed that his moodiness, his harshness, and his former faults of morality (I say former, for now he seemed corrected of them) had their source in some cruel cross of fate.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)