Moisture

English

Etymology

moist +‎ -ure

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmɔɪsʧɚ/, SAMPA: /"mOIstS@`/

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Noun

Wikipedia

Singular Moisture

Plural -

Moisture (-)

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. -Template:Shak.

Related terms

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

Translations

a moderate degree of wetness

Afrikaans: vog Albanian: lagështirë sq(sq) f. Catalan: humitat f. Chinese: 濕氣, 湿气 (shīqì) Croatian: vlaga hr(hr) f. Czech: vlhkost cs(cs) f. Dutch: vochtigheid nl(nl) f., vocht nl(nl) n. Finnish: kosteus fi(fi) French: humidité fr(fr) f. German: Feuchtigkeit de(de) f., Nässe de(de) f. Greek: υγρασία el(el) (igrasía) f.

Hungarian: nedvesség hu(hu) Italian: umidità it(it) f. Japanese: 湿気 (しっき, shikki) Korean: 습기 (seupgi) Lithuanian: drėgnis m., drėgnumas m.; drėgmė f. Portuguese: umidade f., humidade f. Romanian: umezeală ro(ro) f. Russian: влажность (vlážnost’) f. Slovak: vlaha sk(sk) f. Spanish: humedad es(es) f. Swedish: fuktighet c.

that which moistens or makes damp

Lithuanian: drėgmė f.

Russian: влага ru(ru) (vlága) f.

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