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Gloom vs Dejection - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between gloom and dejection

is that gloom is darkness, dimness or obscurity while dejection is a state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.

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")

    dejection

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues
  • The act of humbling or abasing oneself.
    • Adoration implies submission and dejection . — Bishop Pearson.
  • A low condition; weakness; inability.
    • A dejection of appetite. — Arbuthnot.
  • (medicine, archaic) Defecation or feces.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1855 , year_published= , publisher=Linday & Blakiston , author=Austin Flint , title=Clinical Reports on Continued Fever Based on Analyses of One Hundred and Sixty-Four Cases , section=First Clinical Report on Continued Fever, Based on an Analysis of Forty-Two Cases citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=u_wRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA47&dq=dejection , page=39 , passage=No dejection since his entrance, nor has he passed urine.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1861 , year_published=2010 , publisher=Applewood Books , author=James Jackson , title=Another Letter to a Young Physician , section=Note I. John Lowell citation , pageurl=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=usPFfQCrZmcC&pg=PA103&dq=dejections , isbn=9781429044141 , page=103 , passage=His dejections were frequent, loose, changing in character from hour to hour, made up of undigested food, of mucus and watery fluid, varying in color, mostly green, and never healthy in consistence, color, or odor.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1921 , year_published=2000 , publisher=B. Jain Publishers , edition=2nd edition , author=Charles Signmund Raue , title=Diseases of Children - Homeopathic Treatment , section=Chapter IX Diseases of the Intestines citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=FTfWiens6csC&pg=PA206&dq=dejections , isbn=9788170211761 , pages=205-206 , passage=Chorera infantum may begin as an attack of acute indigestion, or, what is more frequently the case, suddenly, with severe vomiting and copious dejections , high fever and rapid prostration.}}

    Synonyms

    * (defecation or feces) excrement, bowel movement