moisture

English

Etymology

From Old French moistour ‎(“moisture, dampness, wetness”). Compare French moiteur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɪstʃɚ/

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Noun

moisture ‎(usually uncountable, plural moistures)

1. A moderate degree of wetness.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

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

3. (medicine) Skin moisture noted as dry, moist, clammy, or diaphoretic as part of the skin signs assessment.

Synonyms

• weakiness

Related terms

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

Translations

a moderate degree of wetness

• Afrikaans: vog
• Albanian: lagështirë (sq) f
• Armenian: խոնավություն (hy) ‎(xonavutʿyun), թացություն (hy) ‎(tʿacʿutʿyun)
• 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) f ‎(ygrasía)
• Greenlandic: aalaq
• Hebrew: לחות (he) f ‎(lakhút)
• Hungarian: nedvesség (hu)
• Italian: umidità (it) f
• Japanese: 湿気 (ja) ‎(しっき, shikki)

• Korean: 습기 (ko) ‎(seupgi)
• Latin: sucus (la) m
• Latvian: mistrums m, miklums m, valgums m, valganums m
• Lithuanian: drėgnis m, drėgnumas m, drėgmė f
• Macedonian: влага f ‎(vlaga)
• Malay: kelembapan
• Middle Persian: 𐭭𐭬 ‎(nam)
• Persian: نم (fa) ‎(nam)
• Polish: wilgoć (pl) f
• Portuguese: umidade (pt) f, humidade (pt) f
• Romanian: umezeală (ro) f
• Russian: вла́жность (ru) f ‎(vlážnostʹ), вла́га (ru) f ‎(vlága)
• Serbo-Croatian: vlȁga (sh), вла̏га
• Slovak: vlaha f
• Slovene: vlága (sl) f
• Spanish: humedad (es) f
• Swedish: fuktighet c, fukt (sv) c
• Tagalog: halumigmig

that which moistens or makes damp

• Hebrew: לחות (he) f ‎(lakhút)
• Latvian: mitrums m, miklums m, slapjums m

• Lithuanian: drėgmė f
• Malay: lembapan
• Russian: вла́га (ru) f ‎(vlága)

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