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Lugubriousness

noun
1.
The quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness.  Synonyms: gloominess, sadness.






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"Lugubriousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... farcical to me because of the Italian, 'Questo cranio, Signore—'And Enrico, dainty fellow, took the skull in a corner of his black cloak. As an Italian, he would not willingly touch it. It was unclean. But he looked a fool, hulking himself in his lugubriousness. He ...
— Twilight in Italy • D.H. Lawrence

... with the things of the shrine and of the Shinto shelf, just as there is a certain freedom at the public shrines and in the temple, does not destroy the impression. When a man has taken me to his little graveyard I have been struck by the lack of that lugubriousness which Western people commonly associate with what is sacred. The Japanese conception of reverence is somewhat different from our own. As to sorrow, the idea is, as is well known, that it is the height of bad manners to trouble ...
— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott



Words linked to "Lugubriousness" :   uncheerfulness, lugubrious



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