moisture

English

Etymology

moist +‎ -ure

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmɔɪstʃɚ/, X-SAMPA: /"mOIstS@`/

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Noun

Wikipedia moisture (uncountable)

1. A moderate degree of wetness. --Francis Bacon.
2. That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid;liquid in small quantity.

   All my body’s moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. -William Shakespeare

Related terms

• moist
• moisten
• moisturise, moisturize
• moisturiser, moisturizer

Translations

a moderate degree of wetness

Afrikaans: vog (af) Albanian: lagështirë (sq) f. Catalan: humitat (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 濕氣 (zh), 湿气 (zh) (shīqì) Czech: vlhkost (cs) f. Dutch: vochtigheid (nl) f., vocht (nl) n. Finnish: kosteus (fi) French: humidité (fr) f. German: Feuchtigkeit (de) f., Nässe (de) f. Greek: υγρασία (el) (ygrasía) f. Greenlandic: aalaq (kl)

Hungarian: nedvesség (hu) Italian: umidità (it) f. Japanese: 湿気 (ja) (しっき, shikki) Korean: 습기 (ko) (seupgi) Lithuanian: drėgnis (lt) m., drėgnumas (lt) m., drėgmė (lt) f. Polish: wilgoć (pl) f. Portuguese: umidade (pt) f., humidade (pt) f. Romanian: umezeală (ro) f. Russian: влажность (ru) (vlážnost’) f., влага (ru) (vlága) f. Serbo-Croatian: vlȁga (sh), вла̏га (sh) Slovak: vlaha (sk) f. Spanish: humedad (es) f. Swedish: fuktighet (sv) c., fukt (sv) c.

that which moistens or makes damp

Lithuanian: drėgmė (lt) f.

Russian: влага (ru) (vlága) f.

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