glooming

English

Etymology 1

Verb

glooming

1. present participle and gerund of gloom

Etymology 2

Compare gloaming.

Noun

glooming (plural gloomings)

1. Twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming.
   • 1835, Richard Chenevix Trench, To my God-Child, on the Day of his Baptism:

     When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day

   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 31:

     [T]he balmy glooming, crescent-lit, / Spread the light haze along the river-shores, / And in the hollows; […]

2. Gloomy behaviour; melancholy.
   • c. 1553, anonymous author, Gammer Gurton's Needle, London: Gibbings & Co. for the Early English Drama Society, published 1906, act 3, scene 3, page 35:

     What devil, woman! pluck up your heart, and leave off all this glooming.

Synonyms

• (twilight): crepuscule, twilight, vespers; see also Thesaurus:twilight
• (gloomy behaviour): misery, sadness, sorrow, woe