Tone vs. Mood — What's the Difference?

A musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength

A particular state of mind or emotion

The general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.

A pervading impression of an observer

A basic interval in classical Western music, equal to two semitones and separating, for example, the first and second notes of an ordinary scale (such as C and D, or E and F sharp); a major second

An instance or spell of sulking or angry behavior

The particular quality of brightness, deepness, or hue of a shade of a colour

Inclination; disposition

(in some languages, such as Chinese) a particular pitch pattern on a syllable used to make semantic distinctions.

A property of verbs in which the speaker's attitude toward the factuality or likelihood of the action or condition expressed.

The normal level of firmness or slight contraction in a resting muscle

A category or set of verb forms or inflections used to indicate such an attitude. In English, the indicative mood is used to make factual statements, the subjunctive mood to indicate doubt or unlikelihood, and the imperative mood to express a command.

Give greater strength or firmness to (the body or a muscle)

(Logic) The arrangement of statement types in a syllogism.

Harmonize with (something) in terms of colour

A mental or emotional state, composure.

Give (a monochrome picture) an altered colour in finishing by means of a chemical solution

Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).

A sound of distinct pitch, quality, and duration; a note.

A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.

The interval of a major second in the diatonic scale; a whole step.

A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.

A recitational melody in a Gregorian chant.

A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.

The quality or character of sound.

(slang) A familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.

The characteristic quality or timbre of a particular instrument or voice.

(grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.

The pitch of a word used to determine its meaning or to distinguish differences in meaning.

(slang) Used to express that the speaker finds something very relatable.

The particular or relative pitch of a word, phrase, or sentence.

Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).

Manner of expression in speech or writing

Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, conditional, hypothetical, obligatory, imperitive, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the imperitive mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode.

A general quality, effect, or atmosphere

Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.

A color or shade of color

A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling;

Quality of color

The prevailing psychological state;

The general effect in painting of light, color, and shade.

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

The normal state of elastic tension or partial contraction in resting muscles.

Normal firmness of a tissue or an organ.

To give a particular tone or inflection to.

To soften or change the color of (a painting or photographic negative, for example).

To sound monotonously; intone.

To make firmer or stronger. Often used with up

To assume a particular color quality.

To harmonize in color.

(music) A specific pitch.

(music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.

(music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.

The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.

(linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.

(dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.

(literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.

(obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.

The shade or quality of a colour.

The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.

The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.

(biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.

(biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.

A gun

(figuratively)

The general character, atmosphere, mood, or vibe (of a situation, place, etc.).

(Chiefly in the form lower/raise the tone of something) The quality of being respectable or admirable.

(transitive) to give a particular tone to

(transitive) to change the colour of

(transitive) to make (something) firmer

(transitive) to utter with an affected tone.

The one (of two)

Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.

Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.

A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.

A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.

That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.

Tonicity; as, arterial tone.

State of mind; temper; mood.

Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.

General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.

The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; - commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone.

Quality, with respect to attendant feeling; the more or less variable complex of emotion accompanying and characterizing a sensation or a conceptual state; as, feeling tone; color tone.

Color quality proper; - called also hue. Also, a gradation of color, either a hue, or a tint or shade.

The condition of normal balance of a healthy plant in its relations to light, heat, and moisture.

To utter with an affected tone.

To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment.

The quality of a person's voice;

(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages;

(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound);

The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people;

A quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color;

A notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound;

A steady sound without overtones;

The elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli;

A musical interval of two semitones

The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author;

Utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically;

Of one's speech, varying the pitch

Change the color or tone of;

Change to a color image;

Give a healthy elasticity to;