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What is the noun for glooming?

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gloom
  1. Darkness, dimness or obscurity.
  2. A melancholic, depressing or despondent atmosphere.
  3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
  4. A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Something about the gloom and the darkness appealed to me, probably the same reason I loved horror movies.”
      “The morale-boosting victory lifted the gloom hanging over the club amid the uncertainty surrounding its future.”
      “I don't detect any gloom in their outlook for the future.”
glooming
gloaming
  1. (poetry, Scotland, Britain, Northern England) twilight, as at early morning or (especially) early evening; dusk
  2. (obsolete) sullenness; melancholy
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  4. Examples:
    1. “During the gloaming, a tranquil silence settles as the colors of the sky blend into an enchanting twilight.”
      “As dusk settled over the horizon, the enchanted garden embraced the delicate gloaming, where shadows danced among the moonlit petals.”
      “Small numbers of red deer are also here, especially in the gloaming, grazing high among the pines.”
gloam
  1. (obsolete) gloaming, twilight
gloominess
  1. The state or condition of being gloomy.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Plagued by gloominess and self-hatred, Hamlet often contemplates suicide and berates himself for delaying his vengeance.”
      “The gloominess of the night had prevented his discovering who the woman was.”
      “It was a dark, rambling, badly-lit Victorian pile, but at the time its ponderous gloominess appealed to my over-developed taste for the Gothic.”
gloomth
  1. (rare) Gloominess.
gloominesses
gloomings
  1. plural of glooming
gloamings
gloams
  1. plural of gloam
glooms
  1. plural of gloom
  2. Examples:
    1. “Blacks, whites, shadows, glooms, and cobwebs are also used with formidable effect in the Satis House scenes in Great Expectations.”
      “His ingenious lighting did much to make the most of the subtle settings, some of which poured strange light into Stygian glooms.”
      “He has been such a bright and consistent light amidst the usual gathering glooms.”
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