water or other liquid causing a slight wetness or dampness
Origin of moisture
Old French moisteur from moiste: see moist
noun
Moisture is defined as a small amount of wetness.
When hot water runs through pipes and condensation causes the pipes to drip a little tiny bit of water on your basement floor, this resulting water is an example of moisture.
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noun
Diffuse wetness that can be felt as vapor in the atmosphere or condensed liquid on the surfaces of objects; dampness.
Origin of moisture
Middle English from Old French from moiste moist ; see moist .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(uncountable)
- A moderate degree of wetness. --Francis Bacon.
- 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
- (medicine) Skin moisture noted as: dry, moist, clammy, or diaphoretic as part of the skin signs assessment
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moist +"Ž -ure
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Sentence Examples
- He wiped moisture from his eyes.
- Her gaze blurred, and hot moisture burned down her cheeks.
- We'll be safe here, and the moisture in the cave will keep the dust down.
- She gave up trying to wipe the moisture from her hands.
- The night was dark and damp, a scarcely perceptible moisture was descending from above.
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