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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Moroseness \Mo*rose"ness\, n.
Sourness of temper; sulenness.
Learn good humor, never to oppose without just reason;
abate some degrees of pride and moroseness. --I. Watts.
Note: 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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
moroseness
n 1: a gloomy ill-tempered feeling [syn: {glumness}, {sullenness}]
2: a sullen moody resentful disposition [syn: {sulkiness}, {sullenness},
{sourness}]
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