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Meaning of SOMBERNESS

Pronunciation:  'sâmburnes

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a manner that is serious and solemn
  2. [n]  a feeling of melancholy apprehension
  3. [n]  a state of partial or total darkness; "he struck a match to dispell the gloom"
 
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 Synonyms: gloom, gloom, gloominess, graveness, gravity, soberness, sobriety, sombreness
 
 See Also: apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread, earnestness, melancholy, semidarkness, serious-mindedness, seriousness, sincerity, stodginess, stuffiness

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Som"ber*ness\, Sombreness \Som"bre*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being somber; gloominess.
 
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