mood
n 1: 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" [syn: {temper},
{humor}, {humour}]
2: the prevailing psychological state; "the climate of
opinion"; "the national mood had changed radically since
the last election" [syn: {climate}]
3: verb inflections that express how the action or state is
conceived by the speaker [syn: {mode}, {modality}]