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English
Etymology
From morose + -ness.
Noun
moroseness (usually uncountable, plural morosenesses)
- Gloominess; sullenness; deep sadness.
1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: , volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, , →OCLC:He acquired a slouching gait and ignoble look; his naturally reserved disposition was exaggerated into an almost idiotic excess of unsociable moroseness; and he took a grim pleasure, apparently, in exciting the aversion rather than the esteem of his few acquaintance.
2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 217:With the typical moroseness of a dipping twitcher he turned to me, looking cynically at my spotlight, and said, `I don't like your chances, mate.'
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- moroseness in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- “moroseness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “moroseness”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.