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Definition: Somberness |
SombernessNoun1. A state of partial or total darkness; "he struck a match to dispell the gloom". 2. A feeling of melancholy apprehension. 3. A manner that is serious and solemn. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "somberness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references) |
Synonyms: SombernessSynonyms: gloom (n), gloominess (n), graveness (n), gravity (n), soberness (n), sobriety (n), sombreness (n). (additional references) |
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German | Düsterkeit (darkness, dimness, dismalness, drabness, duskiness, gloom, gloominess, grayness, luridness, morbidity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tristezza (dejection, dreariness, gloom, gloominess, lugubriousness, sadness, sombreness, sorrow, unhappiness), oscurit (background, blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, duskiness, eclipse, gloom, gloominess, mirk, murk, murkiness, night, obscureness, obscurity, opacity, shade, sombreness), malinconia (gloom, hump, melancholia, melancholiness, melancholy, miserable, pensiveness, sadness, sombreness, spleen), l'essere scuro (sombreness), buio (black, bleak, dark, darkness, dismal, dreary, gloom, gloominess, murkiness, night, somber, sombre, sombreness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ombernesssay мрачность (blackness, dourness, dreariness, gloom, gloominess, saturninity). (various references) loşluk (darkness, dimness, gloominess, obscurity, sombreness), koyuluk (consistency, darkness, deep, deepness, intenseness, intension, intensity, saturation, sombreness, stiffness, thickness), kasvet (cheerlessness, depression, doldrums, dolefulness, dreariness, gloom, gloominess, heaviness, heebie-jeebies, murk, sombreness, sullenness), karanlık (clouded, dark, darkling, darkness, deep, deepness, dun, dusky, foggy, funny, funny peculiar, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, inkiness, murk, murky, night, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, pitchy, shadow, shadowy, shady, somber, sombre, sombreness, tenebrous, unlit), hüzün (blues, doldrums, dole, dolefulness, dreariness, gloom, gloominess, melancholy, ruefulness, sadness, shadow, sombreness, spleen). (various references) sự tối (sombreness), sự mờ mịt (sombreness), sự ảm đạm tính u sầu (sombreness), tính bu"n rười rượi (sombreness), tính ủ rũ (sombreness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | austeritatem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "somberness": sombernesses. (additional references) | |
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"Somberness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sumbanese. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-m-n-o-r-s-s-s" | |
-1 letter: embossers, soberness. | |
-2 letters: embosser, embosses, soreness. | |
-3 letters: boreens, enrobes, moreens, mossers, senores, sensors, sermons. | |
-4 letters: bermes, besoms, boners, boreen, bosses, bromes, broses, embers, emboss, enrobe, eroses, menses, mesnes, mesons, messes, moreen, mosser, mosses, nesses, obsess, ombers, ombres, semens, senors, senses, sensor, sermon, sneers, snores, sobers, somber, sombre. | |
-5 letters: beers, benes, berme, berms, besom, boner, bones. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-m-n-o-r-s-s-s" | |
+2 letters: morbidnesses, sombernesses. | |
+4 letters: cumbersomeness, cumbrousnesses, umbrageousness. | |
+5 letters: memorablenesses, removablenesses, troublesomeness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 6D 62 65 72 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- -- -... . .-. -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01101101 01100010 01100101 01110010 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o m b e r n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 006D 0062 0065 0072 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53817968718480718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Translations: Modern 4. Translations: Ancient | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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