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Moroseness vs Sourness - What's the difference?

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Moroseness is a related term of sourness.


As nouns the difference between moroseness and sourness

is that moroseness is gloominess; sullenness; deep sadness while sourness is the quality or condition of being sour, usually said of human personalities.

moroseness

English

Noun

(-)
  • Gloominess; sullenness; deep sadness.
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  • *:He acquired a slouching gait and ignoble look; his naturally reserved disposition was exaggerated into an almost idiotic excess of unsociable moroseness ; and he took a grim pleasure, apparently, in exciting the aversion rather than the esteem of his few acquaintance.

    • Synonyms

    * morosity

    References

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    sourness

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • The quality or condition of being sour, usually said of human personalities.
    • 1811' ''Mrs. Ferrars was a little, thin woman, upright, even to formality, in her figure, and serious, even to '''sourness , in her aspect.'' — Jane Austen, ''Sense and Sensibility , Chapter 2.1.