Moodiness

Definition: Moodiness

Moodiness

Noun

1. A sullen gloomy feeling.

2. Having temperamental and changeable moods.

Date "moodiness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Sullenness	Moodiness; Adjective: perversity; obstinacy; torvity, spinosity; crabbedness; Adjective:
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	The old restless moodiness had again filled his breast as it had done on the night of the party but had not found an outlet in verse.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Moodiness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Moodiness" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	9	117,287

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "moodiness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏كآبة (bleakness, damp, dejection, depression, desolation, despondency, dreariness, gauntness, gloom, gloominess, grief, low spirits, melancholy, mope, sadness, sombreness, sorrow, spleen), ‏نكد (chafe, distemper, fractious, grouchiness, moody, peevish, pettish, petulant, querulous, somber, sombre, splenetic, sulk, sullen, testy, vex, vinegar). (various references)

Bulgarian		зависимост от настроения. (various references)

Chinese		忧郁 (Dismal, melancholy). (various references)

Czech		rozmrzelost (annoyance, huff, peevishness, resentment, unpleasantness, upset), náladovost (capriciousness, moods, whimsicality). (various references)

French		humeur maussade. (various references)

German		launenhaftigkeit (capriciousness, changeability). (various references)

Greek		κατήφεια (dejection, dumps, gloom, gloominess, melancholy, mopishness, pensiveness), ιδιοτροπία (caprice, crankiness, crotchetiness, faddiness, fancy, freak, kink, maggot, quirk, tetchiness, vagary, whim, whimsicalness, whimsy). (various references)

Hebrew		�"כ�"וך (chagrin, dejection, depression, dismay, gloom, gloominess, low spirits, spleen). (various references)

Hungarian		változékony hangulat, rosszkedv (blues, crossness, doldrums, dump, fit of blues, grouch, grumpiness, grundyism, hip, hump, ill humor, ill humour, low spirits, miff, mumps, spunk), levertség (affliction, dejectedness, dejection, depression, dispiritedness, droop, heaviness, mood, mopes, prostration). (various references)

Italian		malumore (bad feeling, bad mood, bad temper, grouch, hump, spleen, sulkiness), broncio (pout, sulk, sulkiness). (various references)

Manx		teaymid (capriciousness, fitfulness, instability), teaymaght (whimsicality), groamid (blues, cheerlessness, dejection, disagreeableness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, grimness, ill temper, joylessness, moping, moroseness, sombreness, sternness, sullenness). (various references)

Pig Latin		oodinessmay

Romanian		toane (pet, tantrum), proastã dispoziţie (huffiness, ill humor, ill humour, megrim, melancholy, mumps, spleen). (various references)

Russian		удрученность (aggrievement, dispiritedness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ćudljivost (vagary, whimsicality). (various references)

Spanish		melancolía (blue devils, blues, gloom, gloominess, melancholia, melancholy), mal humor (bad mood, bad temper, crossness, fretfulness, grouch, grouchiness, grumpiness, ill humor, ill humour, peeve, peevishness, petulance, spleen, surliness), propensión de cambiar bruscamente de humor, humor cambiadizo. (various references)

Thai		ความหงุ�"หงิ�". (various references)

Turkish		huysuzluk (acerbity, acrimony, bad temper, bile, biliousness, crankiness, crossness, cussedness, devilry, disagreeableness, distemper, fractiousness, grouch, grouchiness, huff, pettishness, petulance, sourness, spleen, surliness, temper, vice, viciousness), aksilik (awkwardness, bile, contrariety, contrariness, contretemps, crossness, dourness, fractiousness, gruffness, hardness, hitch, ill luck, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, moods, perversity, petulance, recalcitrance, reverse, rotten luck, setback, slip, slip up, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, testiness, trouble, vexatiousness). (various references)

Vietnamese		trạng thái bu�"n rầu, trạng thái ủ r (mopishness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "moodiness": moodinesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Moodiness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Modaressi, modeness, Moodies, mouldiness, moundiness. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "moodiness" (pronounced 'Mood"i*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-i-m-n-o-o-s-s"
	-1 letter: dominoes, endosmos, monodies, sodomies.
	-2 letters: dimness, domines, dominos, emodins, eonisms, isodose, misdoes, misdone, missend, noisome, osmosed, simoons.
	-3 letters: deisms, demons, denims, dismes, domine, domino, donsie, emodin, enosis, eonism, eosins, essoin, mesons, mioses, missed, mondes, mondos, monied, monies, mooned, mossed, nodose, noesis, noised, noises, noosed, nooses, odeons, onside, osmose, ossein, simoon, snoods, sodoms, sondes.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-i-m-n-o-o-s-s"
	+2 letters: endomitoses, endomitosis, moodinesses.
	+3 letters: commissioned, decommission, diseconomies, microseconds, monodisperse, nondomestics, somatomedins.
	+4 letters: aldosteronism, chondriosomes, decommissions, decompression, demonologists, endometrioses, endometriosis, endomorphisms, endosymbionts, endosymbioses, endosymbiosis, melodiousness, mispositioned, misunderstood, postmodernism, postmodernist.
	+5 letters: aldosteronisms, commodiousness, compassionated, decommissioned, decompositions, decompressions, demolitionists, demonstrations, domestications, modernisations, postmodernisms, postmodernists, recommissioned, semiconductors.
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