sulkiness

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sulkiness has 3 senses

sulkiness(n = noun.feeling) sulk - a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal; "stayed home in a sulk"

is a kind of humor, humour, mood, temper

Derived form adjective sulky₁

sulkiness(n = noun.feeling) huffishness - a feeling of sulky resentment; Array

is a kind of bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour, resentment

Derived form adjective sulky₁

sulkiness(n = noun.attribute) moroseness, sourness, sullenness - a sullen moody resentful disposition; Array

is a kind of ill nature

Derived form adjective sulky₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

sulkiness, n. [For sulkenness, fr. AS. solcen slothful, remiss, in āsolcen, besolcen, properly p. p. of sealcan in āsealcan to be weak or slothful; of uncertain origin.].

The quality or state of being sulky; sullenness; moroseness; as, sulkiness of disposition. [1913 Webster]

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