different between glumness vs atrabiliousness

English

Etymology

glum +? -ness

Noun

glumness (countable and uncountable, plural glumnesses)

1. The emotion of being glum.

English

Etymology

atrabilious +? -ness

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æt???b?li.?sn?s/
• Hyphenation: atra?bili?ous?ness

Noun

atrabiliousness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being atrabilious.
   1. (medicine, obsolete) The state or quality of having an excess of black bile.
   2. Grumpiness, irritability, melancholy, moroseness.
      • 2013, Anne-Marie Millim, “‘Troops of Unrecording Friends’: Vicarious Celebrity in the Memoir”, in Charlotte Boyce, Páraic Finnerty, Anne-Marie Millim, Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson's Circle, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-137-00793-3:

        The text is 'suffused with decorous domesticity', which, [Richard] Altick has argued, is due to its rigorous omission of the 'idiosyncrasies that made [[Alfred, Lord] Tennyson] the engaging and often formidable character he was – his vanity, his atrabiliousness [and] his shaggy Lincolnshire abruptness.'

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Related terms

• atrabiliary
• atrabilious
• atrabiliously