atrabiliousness

== English == === Etymology === From atrabilious +‎ -ness. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌæt.ɹəˈbɪl.i.əs.nəs/ Hyphenation: atra‧bili‧ous‧ness === Noun === atrabiliousness (uncountable) The state or quality of being atrabilious. (medicine, obsolete) The state or quality of having an excess of black bile. Grumpiness, irritability, melancholy, moroseness 2013, Anne-Marie Millim, “‘Troops of Unrecording Friends’: Vicarious Celebrity in the Memoir”, in Charlotte Boyce, Páraic Finnerty, Anne-Marie Millim, Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson's Circle, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-137-00793-3: The text is 'suffused with decorous domesticity', which, [Richard] Altick has argued, is due to its rigorous omission of the 'idiosyncrasies that made [[Alfred, Lord] Tennyson] the engaging and often formidable character he was – his vanity, his atrabiliousness [and] his shaggy Lincolnshire abruptness.' ==== Quotations ==== For more quotations using this term, see Citations:atrabiliousness. ==== Related terms ==== atrabiliary atrabilious atrabiliously