Search Result for "sulkiness": 
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal;
- Example: "stayed home in a sulk"
[syn: sulk, sulkiness]

2. a feeling of sulky resentment;
[syn: sulkiness, huffishness]

3. a sullen moody resentful disposition;
[syn: sulkiness, sullenness, moroseness, sourness]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sulkiness \Sulk"i*ness\, n. [For sulkenness, fr. AS. solcen slothful, remiss, in [=a]solcen, besolcen, properly p. p. of sealcan in [=a]sealcan to be weak or slothful; of uncertain origin.] The quality or state of being sulky; sullenness; moroseness; as, sulkiness of disposition. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sulkiness n 1: a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal; "stayed home in a sulk" [syn: sulk, sulkiness] 2: a feeling of sulky resentment [syn: sulkiness, huffishness] 3: a sullen moody resentful disposition [syn: sulkiness, sullenness, moroseness, sourness]