Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Gloominess.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare Gloom.

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  • noun rare Gloominess.

Etymologies

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From gloom +‎ -th.

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Examples

  • Last note, I checked on gloomth and nothing there seems lolita in the slightest.

    Harajuku – Japanese Fashion 2006

  • My dark friend, after sixteen years of totally boring existence, I come to you at last with a glimmer of hope to break through the gloomth that is my miserable life.

    You Suck Moore, Christopher, 1957- 2007

  • I have to say, that as much as I'm all about the peace of the grave and the glorious gloomth of the nonliving and all, it's different when there's a real dead guy you have to walk over, not to mention a really big, angry cat in a sweater.

    You Suck Moore, Christopher, 1957- 2007

  • What a pretty circumstance is the little river! and so far from the position being insipid, to me it has a tranquil cheerfulness that harmonizes with the house, and seems to have been the judicious selection of a wealthy abbot, who avoided ostentation, but did not choose austere gloomth.

    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757

  • I have long been mortified that for these three years you have seen it only in winter: it is now in the height of its greenth, blueth, gloomth, honey-suckle and seringahood.

    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757

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  • coined by Sir Horace Walpole. 'Gloom' didn't quite do it for him.

    April 12, 2009