humidity

English

Etymology

From Middle English humidite, borrowed from Old French humidité, from Medieval Latin hūmiditās, from Latin ūmidus (“damp, moist, wet”). By surface analysis, humid +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hjuːˈmɪd.ə.ti/, /hjuːˈmɪd.ɪ.ti/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /hjuˈmɪd.ə.ti/, [hjuˈmɪɾ.ə.ti], [hjuˈmɪɾ.ə.ɾi]
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /hjʉːˈmɪd.ə.ti/, [hjʉːˈmɪɾ.ə.ti], [hjʉːˈmɪɾ.ə.ɾi]
• Rhymes: -ɪdəti
• Hyphenation: hu‧mi‧di‧ty

Noun

humidity (usually uncountable, plural humidities)

1. Dampness, especially that of the air.

   The high humidity made the air feel sticky and hot.

2. The amount of water vapour in the air.

   Plants in the greenhouse thrive in constant humidity.

Derived terms

• absolute humidity
• antihumidity
• humidex
• humiture
• paleohumidity
• relative humidity
• specific humidity
• temperature-humidity index

Related terms

• humid
• humidifier
• humidify

Translations

dampness, especially that of the air

• Albanian: lagështi (sq) f
• Arabic: رُطُوبَة f (ruṭūba)
• Armenian: խոնավություն (hy) (xonavutʻyun)
• Asturian: humedanza f
• Azerbaijani: rütubət (az), nəm (az)
• Bashkir: дымлылыҡ (dımlılıq)
• Basque: hezetasun
• Belarusian: вільго́тнасць (be) f (vilʹhótnascʹ), вільго́тнасьць f (vilʹhótnasʹcʹ)
• Bengali: আর্দ্রতা (bn) (ardrota)
• Bhojpuri: नमी (namī)
• Breton: glebiadur (br) m
• Bulgarian: вла́жност (bg) f (vlážnost)
• Burmese: စိုထိုင်းဆ (my) (cuihtuing:hca.)
• Catalan: humitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 濕度 / 湿度 (sap¹ dou⁶)

  Mandarin: 濕度 / 湿度 (zh) (shīdù)

• Czech: vlhkost (cs) f
• Danish: luftfugtighed (da) c
• Dutch: luchtvochtigheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: humideco
• Estonian: õhuniiskus
• Finnish: kosteus (fi)
• French: humidité (fr) f
• Galician: humidade (gl) f
• Georgian: ტენიანობა (ṭenianoba), სინესტე (sinesṭe), ნესტიანობა (nesṭianoba), ჰაერის ტენიანობა (haeris ṭenianoba)
• German: Feuchtigkeit (de) f
• Greek: υγρασία (el) f (ygrasía)
• Guarani:

  Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} te'õ

• Haitian Creole: imidite
• Hebrew: לַחוּת (he) f (lakhút)
• Hindi: उमस (hi) f (umas), नम (hi) f (nam), नमी (hi) f (namī), आर्द्रता (hi) f (ārdratā), गीलापन (hi) m (gīlāpan)
• Hungarian: nyirkosság (hu)
• Icelandic: loftraki m
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Ilocano: dam-eg
• Indonesian: kelembapan (id)
• Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: bogthaise f
• Italian: umidità (it)
• Japanese: 湿度 (ja) (しつど, shitsudo), 湿気 (ja) (しっけ, shikke)
• Kazakh: ылғалдылық (ılğaldılıq)
• Khmer: សំណើម (km) (sɑmnaəm), សន្សើម (km) (sɑnsaəm)
• Korean: 습도(濕度) (ko) (seupdo), 습기(濕氣) (ko) (seupgi)
• Kyrgyz: нымдуулук (nımduuluk)
• Lao: ຄວາມຊຸ່ມ (lo) (khuām sum), ຄວາມຊຶ້ນ (khuām sưn)
• Latvian: mitrums m
• Lithuanian: drėgmė f
• Macedonian: влага f (vlaga), влажност f (vlažnost)
• Malay: kelembapan (ms)
• Marathi: आर्द्रता (mr) f (ārdratā), दमटपणा (mr) f (damṭapṇā), ओलावा (mr) m (olāvā)
• Maltese: umdità f
• Māori: pīpīwai
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: чийгшил (mn) (čiigšil)

• Navajo: níłchʼi ditłééʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: luftfuktighet m or f

  Nynorsk: fukt

• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: رُطوبَت (fa) (rotubat), نَم (fa) (nam), نَمْناکی (fa) (namnâki)

• Polish: wilgotność (pl) f
• Portuguese: umidade (pt) f (Brazil), humidade (pt) f (Portugal)
• Romanian: umezeală (ro) f, umiditate (ro) f
• Russian: вла́жность (ru) f (vlážnostʹ)
• Scots: humidity
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вла̏жно̄ст f

  Latin: vlȁžnōst (sh) f

• Tachawit: illumeḍ
• Sicilian: muḍḍura f
• Sindhi: اٻس f (āḇs)
• Slovak: vlhkosť f
• Slovene: vlažnost f
• Somali: dhado (so)
• Spanish: humedad (es) f, relente m
• Swahili: unyevuanga class XI
• Swedish: luftfuktighet (sv) c
• Tagalog: halumigmig, hamil, sayimsim
• Tajik: рутубат (rutubat), намӣ (tg) (namī), тарӣ (tarī), нам (tg) (nam), намнокӣ (namnokī)
• Tatar: дымлылык (tt) (dımlılıq)
• Thai: ความชื้น (th) (kwaam-chʉ́ʉn)
• Turkish: nem (tr)
• Turkmen: yzgar, çyglylyk
• Ukrainian: воло́гість f (volóhistʹ)
• Urdu: نَمی f (namī), رُطُوبَت f (rutūbat)
• Uyghur: نەملىك (nemlik)
• Uzbek: namlik (uz)
• Vietnamese: độ ẩm (vi), tình trạng ẩm ướt, ẩm độ
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: please add this translation if you can

amount of water vapour in the air

• Arabic: رُطُوبَة f (ruṭūba)
• Armenian: խոնավություն (hy) (xonavutʻyun)
• Bashkir: дымлылыҡ (dımlılıq)
• Bulgarian: вла́га (bg) f (vlága)
• Czech: vlhkost (cs) f
• Dutch: luchtvochtigheid (nl) f
• Finnish: ilmankosteus (fi)
• French: humidité (fr) f
• Galician: humidade (gl) f
• Georgian: ტენიანობა (ṭenianoba), ჰაერის ტენიანობა (haeris ṭenianoba)
• German: Luftfeuchtigkeit (de) f
• Hindi: उमस (hi) f (umas), नमी (hi) f (namī), आर्द्रता (hi) f (ārdratā)
• Indonesian: kelembapan udara (id)
• Japanese: 湿度 (ja) (しつど, shitsudo)
• Korean: 습도(濕度) (ko) (seupdo)
• Latvian: mitrums m
• Macedonian: влажност f (vlažnost)
• Marathi: आर्द्रता (mr) f (ārdratā), दमटपणा (mr) f (damṭapṇā), ओलावा (mr) m (olāvā)
• Māori: pīpīwai
• Polish: wilgotność (pl) f
• Portuguese: umidade (pt) f (Brazil), humidade (pt) f (Portugal)
• Romanian: umiditate (ro) f
• Russian: вла́жность (ru) f (vlážnostʹ)
• Sicilian: muḍḍura, umidità
• Sindhi: گھم (sd) f (ghm)
• Spanish: humedad (es) f
• Swahili: unyevuanga
• Swedish: luftfuktighet (sv) c
• Tagalog: halumigmig, hamil, sayimsim

See also

• dew point
• hygrometer

See also

• humidity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia