mopishness

The world has unmistakably grown younger again during the last twenty years, as though -- which, indeed, is the fact -- it had thrown off an accumulation of mopishness, shaken itself free from imaginary middle-aged restrictions and preoccupations.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

I'm right glad poor Mr. Amyas should find a sprightly young lady to cure him of his mopishness.

Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

This only I shall say, that those who indulge their sorrow to such a degree, as to drown their spirits, and to sink them into melancholy and mopishness, and thereby render themselves unserviceable to God, and unfit for the necessities of this life, they commit one sin more to mourn for, and overthrow the end of repentance by the indiscreet use of the means of it.

The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 07. 1630-1694 1820