Usually means: Sternness in manner or appearance.
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  1. dourness: Merriam-Webster
  2. dourness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dourness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dourness: Wordnik
  5. dourness: Wiktionary
  6. dourness: Dictionary.com
  7. dourness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. dourness: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The characteristic of being dour; gloominess; sternness.

Similar:
dreariness, grimness, durity, drearness, dolefulness, sternness, gloominess, somberness, dismalness, austereness, more...

Opposite:
cheerfulness, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment

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

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Similar:
dreariness, grimness, durity, drearness, dolefulness, sternness, gloominess, somberness, dismalness, austereness, more...

Opposite:
cheerfulness, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment

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



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