gloominess

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

GLOOM'INESS, noun Want of light; obscurity; darkness; dismalness. 1. Want of cheerfulness; cloudiness of look; heaviness of mind; melancholy; as, to involve the mind in gloominess
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