moroseness

English

moroseness (usually uncountable, plural morosenesses)

Gloominess; sullenness; deep sadness.
- 1845 October – 1846 June, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: A Novel, volume VIII, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, publisher, […], published December 1847, OCLC 156123328:
  
  He acquired a slouching gait and ignoble look; his naturally reserved disposition was exaggerated into an almost idiotic excess of unsociable moroseness; and he took a grim pleasure, apparently, in exciting the aversion rather than the esteem of his few acquaintance.

moroseness in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
moroseness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
“moroseness” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

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