Main entry: humor, humour, temper, mood
Definition: a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Usage: whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time; he was in a bad humor
Main entry: modality, mode, mood
Definition: verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
Definition: the prevailing psychological state
Usage: the climate of opinion; the national mood had changed radically since the last election