Definition of Mood

Noun: mood mood

A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
"whether he praised or cursed me depended on his mood at the time";
- temper, humor [US], humour [Brit, Cdn]
The prevailing psychological state
"the national mood had changed radically since the last election";
- climate
A verb inflection expressing how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
- mode, modality