Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Moisture; moistness; moderate humidity: as, the dampness of a fog, of the ground, or of a cloth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Moderate humidity; moisture; fogginess; moistness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Moderate
humidity ;moisture ;fogginess ;moistness . - noun Degree to which something is
damp ormoist
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a slight wetness
Etymologies
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Examples
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Across his chest he laid his Mauser rifle, lingering affectionately for a moment to wipe the dampness from the barrel.
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Luckily, we have a fancy bathroom that includes a drying feature, but my main concern about dampness is a stickiness on the veneer flooring.
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Under his palm he could still feel a slight dampness from the sap; it was oozing out little by little, like the blood of a man slowly bleeding to death .
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Under his palm he could still feel a slight dampness from the sap; it was oozing out little by little, like the blood of a man slowly bleeding to death .
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Under his palm he could still feel a slight dampness from the sap; it was oozing out little by little, like the blood of a man slowly bleeding to death .
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Across his chest he laid his Mauser rifle, lingering affectionately for a moment to wipe the dampness from the barrel.
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Mauser rifle, lingering affectionately for a moment to wipe the dampness from the barrel.
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The atmosphere threw off that chilly dampness which is felt after the passage of a great meteor.
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The atmosphere threw off that chilly dampness which is felt after the passage of a great meteor.
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Well, from that he started in, an 'he didn't stop tell he had expounded about every kind of dampness that ever descended from heaven or rose from the earth.
yarb commented on the word dampness
Citation on sunshiny.
May 21, 2008
bilby commented on the word dampness
C'mon, this doesn't cut it. Go moist!
October 21, 2008