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mood

noun
/muːd/

Etymology

From Middle English mood, mode, mod, from Old English mōd (“mind,” in poetry also “heart, spirit, courage”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōd, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz (“sense, courage, zeal, anger”), from Proto-Indo-European *moh₁-, *meh₁- (“endeavour, will, temper”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moud (“courage”), West Frisian moed (“courage; mind; spirit; will; intention”), Dutch moed (“bravery, courage; mood”), German Mut, Muth (“bravery, courage; mood”), German Low German Mood (“boldness, bravery, courage”), Luxembourgish Mutt (“courage”), Yiddish מוט (mut, “bravery, courage”), Danish and Swedish mod (“courage”), Faroese and Icelandic móður (“anger, wrath; fierce mood”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk mot (“courage”), Gothic 𐌼𐍉𐌸𐍃 (mōþs, “mood; anger”), Vandalic *muths (“mind”); also Latin mōs (“behavior, conduct, manner; inclination, temperament; humour, will”), Bulgarian сме́я (sméja, “to dare”), Czech smět (“to be allowed; may”), Macedonian сме́е (smée, “to be allowed”), Polish śmieć (“dare”), Russian сметь (smetʹ, “to dare”), Serbo-Croatian сме̏ти, смје̏ти, smȅti, smjȅti (“to dare, venture”), Slovak smieť (“to be allowed; may”), Slovene smeti (“to be allowed; may”) Ukrainian смі́ти (smíty, “to dare”).

  1. derived from *moh₁-✻
  2. inherited from *mōdaz✻ — “sense, courage, zeal, anger”
  3. inherited from *mōd✻
  4. inherited from mōd
  5. inherited from mood

Definitions

  1. A mental or emotional state, composure.

    • I've been in a bad mood since I was dumped by my ex-boyfriend.
    • Nor these alone, but every landscape fair, / As fit for every mood of mind, / Or gay, or grave, or sweet, or stern, was there / Not less than truth design'd.
    • I envy not in any moods ⁠The captive void of noble rage, ⁠The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: […]

  2. Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).

    • Whatever the mood of her music, funky or romantic, upbeat or blue, sophisticated or simple, her fans get the message. And as long as the word comes from Natalie, they adore it, turning every one of her albums to gold or platinum.

  3. A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state

    A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.

    • He's in a mood with me today.
    • He was beginning to forget his burdening, despairing mood of a short while ago.
    • Rath was clearly in a mood, and only Jay could fix that. They found Carver first. Rath was even less amused to see Carver in the drill room than he had been to find Duster. He grabbed Carver with his free hand, and dragged him out.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.

      • I'm not in the mood for running today.
      • Paul: Shield practice? Gurney, we had shield practice this morning. I'm not in the mood. Gurney: Not in the mood? Mood's a thing for cattle and loveplay, not fighting.
      • "The Placer SPCA brings by some kittens and puppies, and I do my best to get everyone tipsy and in a donating mood."

    2. A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.

      • A good politician senses the mood of the crowd.
      • This was the mood that led him to deny to Mainstream, the successor to the New Masses , permission to reprint “Reading, Writing, and the Rackets.” This was the mood that, when he was invited to a meeting to draft a letter of protest […]
      • By the early 1970s, more than 50,000 American deaths and the accompanying failed foreign-policy objectives had changed the country's mood.

    3. A familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.

      • “I'm only here for a night. I'm road tripping with a friend and he decided we needed a queer bar, stat.” “Oh, that's a whole mood.”
      • To borrow an idiom from the extremely online, late Godard is a mood.
      • […] For academics, not being familiar with new phrases that your students cofindently wield is a whole mood. […]

    4. Used to express that the speaker finds something very relatable.

      • ⁠—I am feeling very exhausted today. ⁠—Mood.
      • I mean, mood. Courteney Cox showing Kimmel her completely empty pantry over Zoom while explaining that her family is snacking more than usual is relatable content.
      • Joon posted a video with a stray cat with the caption 'V's tweet was like #mood'.

    5. A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or…

      A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.

      • The mood most frequently encountered in English is the indicative, of which the mood in this sentence is an example.

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Derived

bemood, commissive mood, in the mood, irrealis mood, mood board, mood booster, mood disorder, moodish, moodless, moodlet, mood light, mood lighting, mood message, mood music, mood piece, mood ring, moodscape, moodsetter, mood stabiliser, mood stabilizer, mood swing, mood-thought, moodwise, moody, overmoody, potential mood, prohibitive mood, realis mood, seasonal mood disorder, tholemod, with main and mood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at mood. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at mood. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at mood

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA