mood
n. C / Un. the way you feel at a particular time, like being happy or sad. It can also describe the general feeling of a place or a piece of music.
n. a temporary state of mind or feeling. In a linguistic context, it refers to a category of verb forms that indicate the speaker's attitude toward what is being said.
She is in a good mood because the sun is shining.
The dark lighting and slow music created a somber mood throughout the entire restaurant.
While the indicative mood is used for factual statements, the subjunctive mood allows speakers to express hypothetical situations or desires that deviate from reality.
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”).
Alteration of mode, from Latin modus, with specialized uses in grammar, music and logic.
Commonly used with the preposition 'in' when referring to a person's emotional state.