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English
Etymology
From Middle English moisture, from Old French moistour (“moisture, dampness, wetness”). Compare French moiteur.
Pronunciation
Noun
moisture (usually uncountable, plural moistures)
- That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity.
drops / beads of moisture
c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I cannot weep; for all my body’s moisture
Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart:
1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 3, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, page 39:[…] as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal, till I could see in the moonlight the moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it lapped the white sharp teeth.
1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 6, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 65:The sage—low-growing and shrubby—could hold its place on the mountain slopes and on the plains, and within its small gray leaves it could hold moisture enough to defy the thieving winds.
- The state of being moist.
- Synonyms: dampness, humidity, moistness, wetness
1631, Francis [Bacon], “IV. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , 3rd edition, London: William Rawley; rinted by J H for William Lee , page 84, →OCLC:[…] all Exclusion of Open Aire, (which is euer Predatory) maintaineth the Body in his first Freshnesse, and Moisture:
1643, John Denham, Coopers Hill, page 7:Such was the discord, which did first disperse
Forme, order, beauty through the universe;
While drynesse moisture, coldnesse heat resists,
All that we have, and that we are subsists:
1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, London: J. Johnson, Volume 1, Section 7, I.1, p. 39:[The organs of touch are excited] by the unceasing variations of the heat, moisture, and pressure of the atmosphere;
- (medicine) Skin moisture noted as dry, moist, clammy, or diaphoretic as part of the skin signs assessment.
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that which moistens or makes damp; liquid in small quantity
the state of being moist
— see also moistness
- Afrikaans: vog
- Albanian: lagështirë (sq) f
- Arabic: رُطُوبَة (ruṭūba)
- Armenian: խոնավություն (hy) (xonavutʿyun), թացություն (hy) (tʿacʿutʿyun)
- Azerbaijani: nəmlik, rütubət (az), nəm (az)
- Belarusian: ві́льгаць f (vílʹhacʹ), вільго́тнасць f (vilʹhótnascʹ)
- Breton: glebiadur (br) m
- Bulgarian: вла́га (bg) f (vlága), вла́жност (bg) f (vlážnost)
- Catalan: humitat (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 濕氣/湿气 (shīqì)
- Czech: vlhkost (cs) f, vláha f
- Danish: fugtighed c
- Dutch: vochtigheid (nl) f, vocht (nl) n
- Finnish: kosteus (fi)
- French: humidité (fr) f
- Galician: humidade (gl) f, lentura (gl) f, humedén f
- German: Feuchtigkeit (de) f, Nässe (de) f
- Greek: υγρασία (el) f (ygrasía)
- Greenlandic: aalaq
- Hebrew: לַחוּת (he) f (lakhút)
- Hindi: नमी (hi) f (namī)
- Hungarian: nedvesség (hu), nyirkosság (hu)
- Irish: taisleach m
- Italian: umidità (it) f
- Japanese: 湿気 (ja) (しっき, shikki)
- Kazakh: дым (dym)
- Khmer: សន្សើម (km) (sɑnsaəm), សំណើម (km) (sɑmnaəm)
- Korean: 습기 (ko) (seupgi)
- Kyrgyz: ым (ky) (ım), ным (ky) (nım)
- Lao: ຄວາມຊຸ່ມ (lo) (khuām sum)
- Latin: mador m, 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 (ms)
- Malayalam: ഈർപ്പം (ml) (īṟppaṁ)
- Manchu: ᠰᡳᠮᡝᠨ (simen)
- Middle English: moisture, moistnes
- Middle Persian: 𐭭𐭬 (nam)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fuktighet (no) m or f
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: влага f (vlaga), вла̏жно̄ст f
- Glagolitic: ⰲⰾⰰⰳⰰ f (vlaga)
- Old East Slavic: волога f (vologa)
- Persian: نم (fa) (nam), رطوبت (fa) (rotubat)
- Polish: wilgoć (pl) f, wilgotność (pl) f
- Portuguese: umidade (pt) f (Brazil), humidade (pt) f (Portugal)
- Romanian: umezeală (ro) f
- Russian: вла́га (ru) f (vlága), вла́жность (ru) f (vlážnostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: вла̏га f
- Roman: vlȁga (sh) f, vlȁžnōst (sh) f
- Slovak: vlaha f, vlhkosť f
- Slovene: vlága (sl) f, vlažnost f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: włoga f
- Upper Sorbian: włoha f
- Spanish: humedad (es) f
- Swedish: fuktighet (sv) c, fukt (sv) c
- Tagalog: halumigmig, hamil, sayimsim
- Tajik: нам (tg) (nam), рутубат (rutubat)
- Tatar: дым (tt) (dım)
- Thai: ความชื้น (th) (kwaam-chʉ́ʉn)
- Turkish: nem (tr), rutubet (tr)
- Turkmen: çyg
- Ukrainian: воло́га f (volóha), вільго́та f (vilʹhóta), воло́гість f (volóhistʹ), во́гкість (uk) f (vóhkistʹ)
- Urdu: نمی f (namī)
- Uzbek: namlik (uz)
- Vietnamese: độ ẩm, khí ẩm
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Etymology
Borrowed from Old French moistour; equivalent to moiste + -ure.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɔi̯stiu̯r(ə)/, /ˈmɔi̯stur(ə)/, /ˈmɔi̯stər(ə)/
Noun
moisture
- moistness, wetness
- moisture, humidity
- fluid, secretion
- (figurative) Something invigorating.
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