Mo-rōse'ness, n.

n. Sourness of temper; sullenness.

Learn good humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degrees of pride and moroseness. Watts.

☞ Moroseness is not precisely peevishness or fretfulness, though often accompanied with it. It denotes more of silence and severity, or ill humor, than the irritability or irritation which characterizes peevishness.