What is mood?

  • (noun): A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling.
    Synonyms: temper, humor, humour
    See also — Additional definitions below

More definitions of "mood":

  • (noun): The prevailing psychological state.
    Example: "The national mood had changed radically since the last election"
    Synonyms: climate
  • (noun): Verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker.
    Synonyms: mode, modality

Famous quotes containing the word mood:

    “Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up
    The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas
    For wind instruments was riding past on a solemn white horse.
    Everybody wondered who the new arrival was.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along.... It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and the animal world begins.”
    —John Colton (1886–1946)

    “I never have been, am not now, and probably never shall be, in a mood of harassing the people, either North or South.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)