gloomies

noun /ˈɡluːmiz/

1. Preceded by the: gloom, despondency.

   informal

   The drear departing day, the coming night, / Increase the gloomies of the tempest's sound, / And damp the last faint hope those trembling souls had found.

Where it comes from

A fanciful plural of gloomy: gloomy + -ies (suffix forming plural nouns ending in y). Gloom is derived from Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm (“gloaming, twilight; darkness”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to gleam, glow, shimmer”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry gloomies (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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