saturninityn.
/ˌsatəˈnɪnᵻti/, U.S. /ˌsædərˈnɪnᵻdi/ The state or quality of being saturnine; gloominess, melancholy; sternness.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [noun] > saturnine quality
saturninity1867
1867 Advocate 15 Jan. 129/2 In daylight always relapses into fierce silence and saturninity.
1903 Critic (N.Y.) Oct. 353/2 The two dominating traits of the Englishman's character are a love of battle and a tendency to saturninity.
1955 Illustr. London News 15 Oct. 666/3 The saturninity of the villain-hero of ‘Wuthering Heights’.
2016 Guardian (Nexis) 20 Jan. He lingers on the saturninity of his father, the goodness of his uncle, the indignities of the Spanish civil war for his leftist family.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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