English Explanatory Dictionary

morosity

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The state or quality of being morose.

Word forms

morosity morosities

Etymology

From French morosité, from Latin morositas (“peevishness”), from morosus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from mos (“way, custom, habit, self-will”).

Synonyms

moroseness
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