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Gloom vs Blueness - What's the difference?

gloom | blueness |

As nouns the difference between gloom and blueness

is that gloom is darkness, dimness or obscurity while blueness is the state or quality of being blue.

As a verb gloom

is to be dark or gloomy.

gloom

English

Noun

(-)
  • Darkness, dimness or obscurity.
    • the gloom of a forest, or of midnight
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • Here was a surprise, and a sad one for me, for I perceived that I had slept away a day, and that the sun was setting for another night. And yet it mattered little, for night or daytime there was no light to help me in this horrible place; and though my eyes had grown accustomed to the gloom , I could make out nothing to show me where to work.
  • A melancholy, depressing or despondent atmosphere.
  • Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
  • * Burke
    • A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.
  • A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.

    • Derived terms

    * doom and gloom * gloomily * (l) (humorous) * gloomy

    Related terms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be dark or gloomy.
  • * Goldsmith
    • The black gibbet glooms beside the way.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 189:
    • Around all the dark forest gloomed .
  • to look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
  • * D. H. Lawrence
    • Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something.
  • To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
  • * Walpole
    • A bow window gloomed with limes.
  • * Tennyson
    • A black yew gloomed the stagnant air.
  • To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
  • * Tennyson
    • Such a mood as that which lately gloomed your fancy.
  • * Goldsmith
    • What sorrows gloomed that parting day.
  • To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "gloom")

    blueness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The state or quality of being blue.
  • * 1905 , H. G. Wells, Empire of the Ants
    • In an atlas, too, the land is man's, and all coloured to show his claim to it — in vivid contrast to the universal independent blueness of the sea.