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gloominess
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gloominess has 3 senses
- gloominess(n = noun.state) gloom, glumness - an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office" is a kind of ambiance, ambience, atmosphere
- gloominess(n = noun.feeling) gloom, somberness, sombreness - a feeling of melancholy apprehension; Array is a kind of apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread, melancholy
- gloominess(n = noun.attribute) lugubriousness, sadness - the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness; Array is a kind of uncheerfulness
has particulars: cloud, bareness, bleakness, desolation, nakedness
Derived form adjective gloomy2
Derived forms adjective gloomy1, adjective gloomy2
THESAURUS
gloominess
bleakness, cynicism, darkness, defeatism, dismalness, dreariness, gloom, gloomy outlook, gravity, grimness, lower, lowering, malism, negativism, nihilism, pessimism, retreatism, solemnity, somber, somberness, sombrousness, uncheerfulness, wearifulness, wearisomeness
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