Words and phrases that have a meaning related to somberness: (132 results)
Often used in the same context:
solemnity, pensiveness, sombreness, melancholy, plaintiveness, wistfulness, poignance, joyousness, ruefulness, poignancy, incredulousness, jocularity, grimness, mournfulness, stateliness, jubilance, hopefulness, lightheartedness, sheepishness, joviality, moroseness, postlude, speechlessness, quietude, cheeriness, inwardness, placidity, angst, gaiety, jollity, sternness, sadness, eeriness, romanticism, heaviness, playfulness, acerbity, elegiac, sentimentality, irascibility, tunefulness, sunniness, mawkishness, mellowness, weightiness, emptiness, wryness, presentiment, nasality, headiness, dies irae, sorrow, amicability, ambivalence, nostalgia, forlornness, boisterousness, didacticism, jadedness, weariness, impassivity, irreverence, disquietude, fleetingness, haphazardness, dreaminess, iciness, threnody, strangeness, breeziness, lugubriousness, facetiousness, geniality, melancholia, gallows humor, thankfulness, sanguinity, exuberance, merriness, arioso, aloneness, foreboding, impermanence, chilliness, reverence, levity, airiness, dissonance, stoicism, memento mori, peppiness, whimsicality, mistiness, joylessness, liveliness, gloominess, garrulousness, effusiveness, indignance, jauntiness, joyfulness, pathos, fierceness, amiability, briskness, docility, mildness, thoughtfulness, affability, asperity, bitterness, bustle, calmness, cheerfulness, coolness, cordiality, dazzle, despair, diffidence, dreariness
More specific:
stodginess, stuffiness
More general:
Also try:earnestness, semidarkness, serious-mindedness, seriousness, sincerity
— Adjectives for somberness: certain, old, such, dark, sudden, unremitting, usual, new, unrelieved, general, funereal, more...
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