| Noun | 1. | sulkiness - a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal; "stayed home in a sulk"humour, mood, temper, humor - a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" | |
| 2. | sulkiness - a feeling of sulky resentment | |
| 3. | sulkiness - a sullen moody resentful dispositionill nature - a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition | |