"dampness" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dampness.wav [Southern-England] Forms: dampnesses [plural]
Etymology: damp + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|damp|ness}} damp + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} dampness (usually uncountable, plural dampnesses)
  1. Moderate humidity; moisture; moistness; the state or quality of being damp. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Liquids Translations (moderate humidity): نم (nim) (Central Kurdish), شێ (şê) (Central Kurdish), vochtigheid (Dutch), kosteus (Finnish), moiteur [feminine] (French), lentura [feminine] (Galician), humidade [feminine] (Galician), mitrums [masculine] (Latvian), miklums [masculine] (Latvian), valgums [masculine] (Latvian), valganums (Latvian), زغار (zağâr) (Persian), umezeală [feminine] (Romanian), вла́жность (vlážnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), сы́рость (sýrostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), fuktighet [common-gender] (Swedish), fukt (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-dampness-en-noun-hCAbNmAC Disambiguation of Liquids: 71 29 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ness Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 31 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 87 13 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ness: 83 17 Disambiguation of 'moderate humidity': 96 4
  2. The degree to which something is damp or moist. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (degree to which something is damp): vochtigheid (Dutch), vochtigheidsgraad (Dutch), kosteus (Finnish), вла́жность (vlážnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), fuktighet [common-gender] (Swedish), fuktighetsgrad [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-dampness-en-noun-Mgv5oOlp Disambiguation of 'degree to which something is damp': 39 61

Inflected forms

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