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Definition of Somberness
1. Noun. A state of partial or total darkness. "He struck a match to dispel the gloom"
Generic synonyms: Semidarkness
Derivative terms: Gloomy, Somber, Sombre
2. Noun. A feeling of melancholy apprehension.
Generic synonyms: Apprehension, Apprehensiveness, Dread, Melancholy
Derivative terms: Gloomy, Somber, Sombre
3. Noun. A manner that is serious and solemn.
Generic synonyms: Earnestness, Serious-mindedness, Seriousness, Sincerity
Specialized synonyms: Stodginess, Stuffiness
Derivative terms: Grave, Grave, Grave, Grave, Sober, Sober, Somber, Sombre
Definition of Somberness
1. n. The quality or state of being somber; gloominess.
Definition of Somberness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being somber. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Somberness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Somberness
Literary usage of Somberness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The National Memorial Volume: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the by Richard Miller Devens (1879)
"... by its ever-varying contents, while the prevalent somberness of its acres of
iron and steel construction was pleasantly relieved by the cheerful ..."
2. Expression in Singing: A Practical Study of Means and Ends by Henry Stuart Kirkland (1916)
"The first stanza demands bright color — the sparkle and brilliancy of which will
enhance the somberness indispensable to the second, and this somberness, ..."
3. American Poems, 1776-1900: With Notes and Biographies by Augustus White Long (1905)
"In Thanatopsis there is shown the greatest reverence for nature, and this reverence
has a somberness which always appeals to a certain side of the ..."
4. The Literature of the South by Montrose Jonas Moses (1910)
"Intense somberness heightened by intense romanticism,—that is Poe; somberness
and romanticism given mora.l balance by Puritanism,—that is Hawthorne; there, ..."
5. Indoors and Out: The Homebuilders' Magazine (1905)
"Somberness and lifelessness are supposed to belong to plant life out of doors in
the season of ice and snow. This condition, however, need not exist ..."
6. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"may find themselves in closer and closer harmony with external things wearing a
somberness distasteful to our race when it was young. The time seems near, ..."
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