moisture

English

Etymology

moist +‎ -ure

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmɔɪstʃɚ/, X-SAMPA: /"mOIstS@`/

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Noun

Wikipedia moisture (uncountable)

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. -William Shakespeare

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

Related terms

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

Translations

a moderate degree of wetness

• Afrikaans: vog (af)
• Albanian: lagështirë (sq) f
• Catalan: humitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 濕氣 (cmn), 湿气 (cmn) (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) (ygrasía) f
• Greenlandic: aalaq (kl)
• Hungarian: nedvesség (hu)
• Italian: umidità (it) f

• Japanese: 湿気 (ja) (しっき, shikki)
• Korean: 습기 (ko) (seupgi)
• Lithuanian: drėgnis (lt) m, drėgnumas (lt) m, drėgmė (lt) f
• Middle Persian: 𐭭𐭬 (nam)
• Persian: نم (fa) (nam)
• Polish: wilgoć (pl) f
• Portuguese: umidade (pt) f, humidade (pt) f
• Romanian: umezeală (ro) f
• Russian: влажность (ru) (vlážnost’) f, влага (ru) (vlága) f
• Serbo-Croatian: vlȁga (sh), вла̏га (sh)
• Slovak: vlaha (sk) f
• Spanish: humedad (es) f
• Swedish: fuktighet (sv) c, fukt (sv) c

that which moistens or makes damp

• Lithuanian: drėgmė (lt) f

• Russian: влага (ru) (vlága) f

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