morosité

Definitions of morosité
  1. noun
    not conducive to cheer or good spirits
    synonyms: mauvaise humeur
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    antonyms:
    bonne humeur, gaieté
    the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom
    types:
    tristesse
    the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness
    type of:
    attribut
    an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity
  2. noun
    a sullen gloomy feeling
    synonyms: maussaderie
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    types:
    maussaderie
    a gloomy ill-tempered feeling
    type of:
    humeur maladive
    an angry and disagreeable mood
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