moodiness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: mood=i=ness

CIDE DICTIONARY

moodiness, n. 

 The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

moodiness

arbitrariness, bouderie, caprice, capriciousness, crankiness, crotchetiness, dejection, desultoriness, deviability, dumpishness, eccentricity, erraticism, fancifulness, fantasticality, fickleness, flightiness, freakishness, glumness, grimness, grumness, humorsomeness, impulsiveness, inconsistency, inconstancy, instability, irregularity, melancholy, mercuriality, moodishness, mopishness, moroseness, motivelessness, petulance, quirkiness, restlessness, shiftiness, sulkiness, sullenness, surliness, temperamentalness, uncertainty, undependability, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsettledness, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, variability, variation, variety, wantonness, waywardness, whimsicality, whimsicalness, whimsy

ROGET THESAURUS

moodiness

Sullenness

N sullenness, morosity, spleen, churlishness, irascibility, moodiness, perversity, obstinacy, torvity, spinosity, crabbedness, ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor, sulks, dudgeon, mumps, dumps, doldrums, fit of the sulks, bouderie, black looks, scowl, grouch, huff, sullen, sulky, ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill- disposed, grouty, in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor, out of temper, out of humor, knaggy, torvous, crusty, crabbed, sour, sour as a crab, surly, moody, spleenish, spleenly, splenetic, cankered, cross, crossgrained, perverse, wayward, humorsome, restiff, restive, cantankerous, intractable, exceptious, sinistrous, deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward, cussed, dogged, grumpy, glum, grim, grum, morose, frumpish, in the sulks, out of sorts, scowling, glowering, growling, grouchy, peevish.