GLOOM Copy link • GLOOMPROPR., [Vid: DARKNESS.] IMPROPR., With reference to the countenance or mind, tristitia: moestitia (sadness; SYN. in SAD): moestus et conturbatus vultus (the saddened countenance): caligo (e.g., caligo bonorum, the gloom that filled the mind of good citizens, Cic., Prov. Cons., 18, 43: also, of the gloomy aspect oj the times [Vid: GLOOMY]: tenebrae (e.g., to throw a gloom over anybody or anything, aliquid tenebrarum offundere, Cic., Tusc., 3, 34, 82; also, lucem eripere et quasi noctem quandam rebus offundere, Cic., N.D., 1, 3, 6; also of the gloomy aspect of things, tenebrae reipublicae, Cic.). A certain gloom of mind, contractiuncula quaedam animi (Cic.). To dispel anybody’s (mental) gloom, caliginem ab animo tamquam ab oculis dispellere.