somberness

noun

Definition of sombernessnext
as in gloominess

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  1. gloom
  2. blackness
  3. semidarkness
  4. obscurity
Noun
  • And the evening wasn’t all doom and gloom for the Wilson family.
    Andy Swift, TVLine, 24 Oct. 2024
  • After two years of doom and gloom, digital health deals are showing signs of life, with venture capital firms making more focused bets and interest rate cuts rekindling some of the COVID-era optimism around the sector.
    Tina Reed, Axios, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of gloom
Noun
  • The Mid-Credits Scene — the King in Black The central plot of The Last Dance revolves around Venom trying to stop the creator of the symbiotes, Knull (Andy Serkis), from escaping his celestial prison and returning all of existence to the Void, the blackness that predates the universe.
    Richard Newby, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
  • This spacewalk occurred early Thursday, when Isaacman and one of his crewmates, SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis, opened the Dragon spacecraft's forward hatch, floated through the opening, and peered out into the blackness of space.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2024
Definition of blackness
Noun
  • Both try to exercise in semidarkness.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2020
  • She [Daria] looks at me and smiles in the semidarkness, a calm, shy smile, full of love.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2021
Definition of semidarkness
Noun
  • Previously, supporting characters only played minor roles, and NPCs existed mostly just to make witty quips and fade back into obscurity.
    Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Constructing an actual, reliable inventory increasingly important to do given that recent laws have not merely set up costly programs likely to slip into obscurity and non-oversight, but because those spending programs are also freighted with regulatory effect.
    Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of obscurity
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