moistness

English

Etymology

From moist +‎ -ness.

Noun

moistness (countable and uncountable, plural moistnesses)

The property of being moist.
(obsolete) Moisture.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  The moistnesse which the roote of a tree suckes becomes a trunke, a leafe, and fruite: And the aire being but one, applied unto a trumpet, becommoth diverse in a thousand sorts of sounds.

Translations

moistness

Finnish: kosteus (fi), nihkeys (fi)
Slovene: vlážnost

Spanish: humedad (es) f

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