moistness

English

Etymology

From Middle English moistnesse, moistnes, equivalent to moist +‎ -ness.

Noun

moistness (countable and uncountable, plural moistnesses)

1. The property of being moist.
2. (obsolete) That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     The moistnesse which the roote of a tree suckes becomes a trunke, a leafe, and fruite: And the aire being but one, applied unto a trumpet, becommoth diverse in a thousand sorts of sounds.

Synonyms

• (both senses): moisture

Translations

moistness — see also moisture

• Finnish: kosteus (fi), nihkeys (fi)
• Galician: humidade (gl) f, lentura (gl) f, humedén f
• Middle English: moistnesse, moisture
• Slovene: vlážnost
• Spanish: humedad (es) f