mood2

 
Pronunciation: /muːd/

noun

  • 1 Grammar a category or form which indicates whether a verb expresses fact (indicative mood), command (imperative mood), question (interrogative mood), wish (optative mood), or conditionality (subjunctive mood).
  • 2 Logic any of the valid forms into which each of the figures of a categorical syllogism may occur.

Origin:

mid 16th century: variant of mode, influenced by mood1