glooming

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of gloom

plural gloomings

1. Twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming.

   When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day

   1835, Richard Chenevix Trench, To my God-Child, on the Day of his Baptism

   1 more example

   [T]he balmy glooming, crescent-lit, / Spread the light haze along the river-shores, / And in the hollows; […]

   1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 31

   Synonyms: crepuscule

2. Gloomy behaviour; melancholy.

   What devil, woman! pluck up your heart, and leave off all this glooming.

   c. 1553, anonymous author, Gammer Gurton's Needle, London: Gibbings & Co. for the Early English Drama Society, published 1906, act 3, scene 3, page 35

   Synonyms: misery, sadness, sorrow, woe