gloominess

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

gloominess
    n 1: an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded
         the office" [syn: {gloom}, {gloominess}, {glumness}]
    2: a feeling of melancholy apprehension [syn: {gloom},
       {gloominess}, {somberness}, {sombreness}]
    3: the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness
       [syn: {gloominess}, {lugubriousness}, {sadness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Gloominess \Gloom"i*ness\, n.
   State of being gloomy. --Addison.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

24 Moby Thesaurus words for "gloominess":
      bleakness, cynicism, darkness, defeatism, dismalness, dreariness,
      gloom, gloomy outlook, gravity, grimness, lower, lowering, malism,
      negativism, nihilism, pessimism, retreatism, solemnity, somber,
      somberness, sombrousness, uncheerfulness, wearifulness,
      wearisomeness

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