moroseness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a gloomy ill-tempered feeling
    sullenness; glumness.
  2. noun a sullen moody resentful disposition
    sulkiness; sullenness; sourness.

WordNet

Mo*rose"ness noun
Definitions
  1. Sourness of temper; sulenness.
    Learn good humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degrees of pride and moroseness. I. Watts.
    ✍ Moroseness is not precisely peevishness or fretfulness, though often accompained with it. It denotes more of silence and severity, or ill-humor, than the irritability or irritation which characterizes peevishness.

Webster 1913