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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moodiness

Moodiness \Mood"i*ness\, n. The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
moodiness

Old English modignes "pride, passion, anger;" see moody + -ness. Meaning "condition of being moody" is from 1858.

Wiktionary
moodiness

n. The property of being moody.

WordNet
moodiness
  1. n. a sullen gloomy feeling

  2. having temperamental and changeable moods

Usage examples of "moodiness".

Elise wondered if the very delicacy with which Citrine had been handled since her rescue had contributed to her moodiness.

Thus, more and more as she changed from child to maiden, Edh could stray off by herself, over the heath till her moodiness blew from her.

By his brooding on the perpetual failure, not only of others, but of himself, to live up to his imaginative ideals, his consequent cynical scorn for humanity, the jejune credulity as to the absolute validity of his ideals and the unworthiness of the world in disregarding them, his wincings and mockeries under the sting of the petty disillusions which every hour spent among men brings to his infallibly quick observation, he has acquired the half tragic, half ironic air, the mysterious moodiness, the suggestion of a strange and terrible history that has left him nothing but undying remorse, by which Childe Harold fascinated the grandmothers of his English contemporaries.

Atop his physical comeliness, the man wore an air of moodiness about him, and a certain degree of mysticism, that, while complementing his sensitive face, seemed at odds with his warrior bearing and the hardness of his hands.

Tim Allerton had got over his fit of moodiness, Rosalie looked less sulky.

I suspected that the Italian count, who was courting her, had more to do with her comments than my love-struck moodiness.

The great maned head whirled on the human, but the swordsman, more familiar now and therefore more comfortable with the great cat’s moodiness, did not flinch.

Her moodiness turned me on and she acted like a total sex kitten when I first handed her the cash amount –.