sulkiness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sulkiness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for sulkiness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sulkiness n a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal; "stayed home in a sulk" Synonym(s): sulk, sulkiness a feeling of sulky resentment Synonym(s): sulkiness, huffishness a sullen moody resentful disposition Synonym(s): sulkiness, sullenness, moroseness, sourness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sulkiness \Sulk"iness\, n. [For sulkenness, fr. AS. solcen slothful, remiss, in [be]solcen, besolcen, properly p. p. of sealcan in [be]sealcan to be weak or slothful; of uncertain origin.] The quality or state of being sulky; sullenness; moroseness; as, sulkiness* of disposition.