moroseness
- n a gloomy ill-tempered feeling
- n a sullen moody resentful disposition
- Given the macro-economic moroseness, what's with the market giggles? "The frequently illogical reaction of markets to daily evolution of the dark economic picture is pretty .
- In a ramshackle native location in South Africa's province of Natal, a twelve-year-old girl lay ill for months subject to fits and spells of moroseness.
- For parents disturbed by a child's fidgets or moroseness, he is ready with the assurance that the youngster may only be passing through a standard phase of development.