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gloom

 noun
     
gloom [singular, uncountable]
1 literary almost complete darkness:
He peered into the gathering (=increasing) gloom.
2 a feeling of great sadness and lack of hope:
a time of high unemployment and economic gloom

➔ doom and gloom

at doom2
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