Noun:

Sourness,

dourness's Usage Examples:

Year with Wisden contrasting the dourness of his batting with the liveliness of his fielding in the covers.

stories of the novel are "entirely plausible" but criticises for "remarkable dourness of its prose".

In contrast to the dourness of grunge, Britpop was defined by "youthful exuberance and desire for recognition".

quiver" was an "added interest" to the song, which helped "break-up bouts of dourness".

Club gave it a C- rating, remarking on the "unrelenting dourness.

refereeing decisions which went against him, which gave him a reputation for dourness.

end of the century was profoundly marked by the civil wars: pessimism, dourness and a call for retreat from the world predominate (as in Jean de Sponde).

discouraging all but religious leisure activities, it fostered a certain dourness, which was for a long time considered an Icelandic stereotype.

unusual combination of cheerful fellowship with, perhaps, a hint of Scottish dourness.

However, he did not enjoy his time at Ewood Park, and later wrote that "the dourness of the club matched that of the town.

Revolution as a 'purifying storm', Gippius was appalled by the 'suffocating dourness' of the whole thing, seeing it as one huge monstrosity "leaving one with.

describes the song's narrative as "smug anti-elitism outdone only by the dourness of John's 'Glass Onion' and 'Sexy Sadie'".