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Somberness

noun
1.
A state of partial or total darkness.  Synonyms: gloom, sombreness.
2.
A feeling of melancholy apprehension.  Synonyms: gloom, gloominess, sombreness.
3.
A manner that is serious and solemn.  Synonyms: graveness, gravity, soberness, sobriety, sombreness.






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"Somberness" Quotes from Famous Books



... conspire to make him. The long hair that hung untrimmed over his face seemed a black emphasis for the cameo delicacy of his features, lending them a wan note of pathos. On his thin temples, bluish veins traced the hall-mark of an over-sensitive nature, and eyes that were deep pools of somberness gazed out ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck

... her crepe blouse—chatting the while like a perfectly good waitress with her suspect. The funny part seemed to her that he took it all with entire seriousness, hardly laughing; only a suspicion of a smile, playing at times around his eyes, relieved the somberness of his lean face. His parted lips showed regular teeth when he spoke, and gave a not unpleasant expression to his mouth. His eyes were as inoffensive as a ...
— Laramie Holds the Range • Frank H. Spearman



Words linked to "Somberness" :   sobriety, serious-mindedness, stodginess, apprehensiveness, sincerity, dread, stuffiness, somber, apprehension, semidarkness, seriousness, melancholy, earnestness



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