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Definition of Glumness
1. Noun. An atmosphere of depression and melancholy. "Gloom pervaded the office"
Generic synonyms: Ambiance, Ambience, Atmosphere
Specialized synonyms: Cloud, Bareness, Bleakness, Desolation, Nakedness
2. Noun. A gloomy ill-tempered feeling.
Generic synonyms: Moodiness
Derivative terms: Glum, Glum, Morose, Sullen
Definition of Glumness
1. n. Moodiness; sullenness.
Definition of Glumness
1. Noun. The emotion of being glum. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Glumness
1. the state of being glum [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glumness
Literary usage of Glumness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"Thus she also, by her manner, confirmed the view which their other acquaintances
had taken, and made Pleasance and the young man feel that her glumness and ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1866)
"When he came back to his brougham between his visits, and went bowling along in
that comfortable way, along the familiar roads, there was a certain glumness ..."
3. Minor Elizabethan Drama by Ashley Horace Thorndike (1913)
"... make glad GLASS PROSPECTIVE, magic glass, practise of wearing keys hung at
showing things distant and to come GLOBING, glumness GLORY, bestow glory on, ..."
4. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"With his customary kindness he spoke to us and rallied us on our glumness.
When he learned the cause, he laughed heartily and with abandon. ..."
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