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• n  an atmosphere of depression and melancholy
• n  a feeling of melancholy apprehension
• n  the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

• Lots of Wall Street economists less renowned for their gloominess have by now moved past the -3% mark.
• One of these worrywarts was Alan Greenspan--a man not known for his gloominess (or his intelligibility).
• Just as the world's financial markets are experiencing a serious mood swing, from exuberance to gloominess, so too is fashion.

• gloom
• glumness
• somberness
• sombreness
• lugubriousness
• sadness

News & Articles

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• Obamacare woes: Hurting Obama in other areas as well? (+video)
  The disastrous roll-out of the Affordable Care Act is to blame for plummeting polls on Obamacare. But that voter gloominess may be impacting the President’s standing on other issues too.
  Nov. 10, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
• Obamacare woes: Hurting Obama in other areas as well?
  The disastrous roll-out of the Affordable Care Act is to blame for plummeting polls on Obamacare. But that voter gloominess may be impacting the President’s standing on other issues too.
  Nov. 9, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor

Quotes

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• David Zabriskie in NJ.com (blog)
  It looks familiar,said Zabriskie, who, as a California native, should know smog. "In America, we call it haze. But you can't put all of the gloominess on the Chinese. It's a worldwide problem."
• Andrew Sean Greer in San Francisco Chronicle
  Surprised after a word search revealed how often he used fog, novelist Andrew Sean Greer described it as "a lovely go-to description, because, unlike sunlight or rain, it can be made to evoke anything - gloominess, comfort, sex, isolation, danger -...