mood
Noun
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A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling (synset 107566518)
"whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor"is a type of: feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional statessubtypes:
- peeve - an annoyed or irritated mood
- sulk, sulkiness - a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal
- amiability, good humor, good humour, good temper - a cheerful and agreeable mood
- distemper, ill humor, ill humour - an angry and disagreeable mood
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The prevailing psychological state (synset 114548263)
"the climate of opinion"; "the national mood had changed radically since the last election"same as: climate
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Verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker (synset 113823636)
is a type of: grammatical relation - a linguistic relation established by grammarsubtypes:
- common mood, declarative, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood - a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
- subjunctive, subjunctive mood - a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible
- optative, optative mood - a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs
- imperative, imperative form, imperative mood, jussive mood - a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
- interrogative, interrogative mood - some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood
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