Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Dampness, especially of the air.
- n. Relative humidity.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being humid; moisture; dampness; especially, a moderate degree of wetness which is perceptible to the eye or touch.
- n. In meteorology, the amount of aqueous vapor in the atmosphere compared with that which is required to saturate it under the given condition as to temperature: specifically called relative humidity. If the atmosphere is completely saturated, the humidity is expressed as 100; if perfectly dry, as 0. The humidity varies widely in different places, and in the same place at different times.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Moisture; dampness; a moderate degree of wetness, which is perceptible to the eye or touch; -- used especially of the atmosphere, or of anything which has absorbed moisture from the atmosphere, as clothing.
- n. The content of water vapor in the air, expressed as a percent of the maximum amount of water vapor that the air can hold at the given temperature; also called
relative humidity . The capacity of the air to hold moisture increases with temperature, so if the temperature changes without changing the absolute content of the atmospheric moisture, the relative humidity will also change.
WordNet 3.0
- n. wetness in the atmosphere
Etymologies
- From Middle English humidite, from Old French, from Medieval Latin humiditas, from Latin umidus ("damp, moist, wet") (Wiktionary)
- Middle English humidite, from Old French, from Medieval Latin hūmiditās, from Latin hūmidus, humid; see humid. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The term humidity describes the fact that the atmosphere can contain water vapor.”
“I'm from Seattle where it rains all of the time and the humidity is always high during the rainy season.”
“Coming from Arizona where, at this time of the year in the Sonoran desert, the humidity is about 8-10% - and the temperature in the 80's-90's - that's when an evaporative cooler works best Pete.”
“In the summer the humidity is about 100%, so there is no problem there.”
“You were here during a dry period; the humidity is a little higher this week.”
“Think I'll go open the stand and see if I can't interest some folks in a snowcone ....... the humidity is atrocious!!!”
“I am starting to realize that "climate", especially in terms of temperature and humidity, is a highly variable phenomenon at a scale of meters or less.”
“Using the Re-analysis for long-term humidity trends is pretty dicey.”
“M.rmur before it, it's the sound of a young R.E.M. All covered in Southern humidity, kudzu and innocence - mumbled vocals, indiscernible lyrics, ringing Rickenbacker's - in essence, a perfect R.E.M. album.”
“Coming by chance into Cornwall, he had taken an uncommon fancy to our climate and its 'humidity' -- that was the word.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘humidity’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
silicon, silica, shrimp, shelve, shallot, serine, seedling, septic, secretin, seaweed, screening, Scomber and 1171 more...
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-dity
absurdity, acidity, acridity, algidity, aridity, bifidity, calidity, commodity, crudity, discommodity, facundity, fecundity and 93 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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Igor's Lexicon
Classroom Vocabulary
mimic, blizzard, sleet, urge, oversee, fool, demonstrate, seek, breeze, gale, hurricane, droughts and 3 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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useful vocab
pysmatic, relentless, storge, preamble, oscillate, itinerary, frolic, frolicsome, abdicate, frolicking, divergent, abnegate and 312 more...
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Wet Words
fluid, ocean, stream, river, puddle, trickle, icicle, drip, weep, moist, humidity, soggy and 18 more...
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Whether the Weather
Should I bring an umbrella?
hurricane, tsunami, fog, tornado, thunderstorm, cyclone, blizzard, drizzle, hail, snow, sleet, graupel and 37 more...
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sailing
ballast, beam, boom, bow, bowsprit, bridge, buoy, chart, cockpit, current, davits, deck and 86 more...
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weathering heights
weather words
ground clouds, haze, mizzle, murk, brume, film, gloom, sunshine, frosty, storm, cirrostratus, cumulonimbus and 57 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for humidity.
she We'll see who's hee-heeing when you have weirdly strong soup cravings* and it's too humid for soup! Boy could I go for some soup. :(
*I can't decide on the most appropriate phrase, but I know it has "somethin' fierce" somewhere in it Aug 30, 2008
Prolagus Hee hee! Aug 30, 2008
she Thanks, freakish nighttime humidity! I had no idea I could come so close to fainting in a lukewarm shower, bathroom windows wide open. Boy golly!
Our weathery sensormabob (one of those silly man-gadgets, in this case a clock) is reading 99% humidity; it's 70 degrees outside, and I'm blasting the air conditioning. PLEASE TO BE MAKE WITH THE RAINING SOON THIS IS RIDICULOUS THANK YOU. Aug 30, 2008