mood

Noun

• verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

• the prevailing psychological state
  • the climate of opinion
    
  • the national mood had changed radically since the last election
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  mode , modality , climate , temper , humor , humour