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English
Etymology
From Middle English moistnesse, moistnes, equivalent to moist + -ness.
Noun
moistness (countable and uncountable, plural moistnesses)
- The property of being moist.
- (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 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.
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