Usually means: State of being gloomy, grave.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. somberness: Merriam-Webster
  2. somberness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. somberness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. somberness: Vocabulary.com
  5. somberness: Wordnik
  6. somberness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. somberness: Wiktionary
  8. somberness: Dictionary.com
  9. Somberness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. somberness: Rhymezone
  11. Somberness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. somberness: FreeDictionary.org
  13. somberness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Somberness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. somberness: Legal dictionary

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  1. somberness: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  The state or quality of being somber.

Similar:
graveness, sombreness, gravity, soberness, gloominess, sobriety, gloom, solemnness, sombrousness, solemnity, more...

Opposite:
cheerfulness, joyfulness, happiness, brightness

Types:
melancholy, gloom, sadness, dejection, despair, more...

Adjectives:
certain, old, such, dark, sudden, unremitting, usual, new, unrelieved, general, funereal

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Similar:
graveness, sombreness, gravity, soberness, gloominess, sobriety, gloom, solemnness, sombrousness, solemnity, more...

Opposite:
cheerfulness, joyfulness, happiness, brightness

Types:
melancholy, gloom, sadness, dejection, despair, more...

Adjectives:
certain, old, such, dark, sudden, unremitting, usual, new, unrelieved, general, funereal



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