Synonym: gloominess, glumness, somberness, sombreness. Similar words: gloomy, glooming, loom, bloom, blooming, glow, globe, glove. Meaning: [gluːm] 
n. 1. a state of partial or total darkness 2. a feeling of melancholy apprehension 3. an atmosphere of depression and melancholy.
n. 1. a state of partial or total darkness 2. a feeling of melancholy apprehension 3. an atmosphere of depression and melancholy. 271. There would be even more snow tomorrow. And in this wind and snow-filled gloom, and even in the marvelously buried street, there was something now unplayful.
272. In the eventide, when fires and shadows mingle with the gloom of dust, he wearily comes back to the ruined temple with hunger in his heart.
273. With the gloom of the contraltos added , one could scarcely help shuddering.