moroseness
Persistently sour mood
Moroseness is a sullen, gloomy state of mind—ill-tempered and withdrawn rather than openly angry.
Someone displaying moroseness seems unwilling to engage, offering little more than brooding silence or terse responses: His moroseness after the breakup made him difficult to be around.
The quality suggests sustained gloom rather than a passing bad mood.
Profound loss of hope
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
- drearinessState of dispiriting dullness
- sombernessGrave, serious quality
- hopelessnessState without hope
pessimism · depression · dismalness · joylessness · desolation · downheartedness · wretchedness · cheerlessness
Prolonged, repetitive thinking
- introspectionObserving one's own mind
- preoccupationAbsorbing mental focus
- withdrawnEmotionally distant, disengaged
- taciturnHabitually uncommunicative
uncommunicative · silent · scowl · glower · frown · inward · mulling · dwelling
State of moody resentment
- grumpinessBad-tempered disposition
- surlinessIll-tempered rudeness
- petulanceIrritable, childish impatience
- irritabilityProneness to agitation
grouchiness · peevishness · churlishness · cantankerousness · sourness · crabbiness · testiness · touchiness
State of emotional pain
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
- mournfulnessQuality of deep grief
- sorrowfulnessProfound, lasting sadness
- dejectionState of lowness
forlornness · plaintiveness · heartache · melancholia · woefulness · dolefulness · pensive · heavyhearted
despondency
Profound loss of hope
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
- drearinessState of dispiriting dullness
- sombernessGrave, serious quality
hopelessness · pessimism · depression · dismalness · joylessness · desolation · downheartedness · wretchedness · cheerlessness · darkness
rumination
Prolonged, repetitive thinking
- introspectionObserving one's own mind
- preoccupationAbsorbing mental focus
- withdrawnEmotionally distant, disengaged
taciturn · uncommunicative · silent · scowl · glower · frown · inward · mulling · dwelling · fixation
sulkiness
State of moody resentment
- grumpinessBad-tempered disposition
- surlinessIll-tempered rudeness
- petulanceIrritable, childish impatience
irritability · grouchiness · peevishness · churlishness · cantankerousness · sourness · crabbiness · testiness · touchiness · resentment
sadness
State of emotional pain
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
- mournfulnessQuality of deep grief
- sorrowfulnessProfound, lasting sadness
dejection · forlornness · plaintiveness · heartache · melancholia · woefulness · dolefulness · pensive · heavyhearted · weltschmerz
- grumpinessgrumpiness, crankiness, grouchiness, irritability, peevishness
- sadnesssad, unhappy, grief, sorrowful, heartbroken
- despairdespair, hopelessness, desolation, despondency, dejection
morosenesscheerfulness
State of bright spirits
happiness · joyfulness · blitheness · buoyancy · lightheartedness
morosenessgeniality
Warmth of manner
affability · amiability · congeniality · warmth · friendliness
morose, moodiness, gloominess, glumness, morosely, sullenness