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dampness

noun

Etymology

From damp + -ness.

  1. derived from *dampaz✻
  2. derived from dampen
  3. inherited from dampen — “to stifle; suffocate”
  4. suffixed as dampness — “damp + ness”

Definitions

  1. Moderate humidity

    Moderate humidity; moisture; moistness; the state or quality of being damp.

    • They hadn't reckoned with the attendant personality disorders, which the coldness, the darkness, the dampness, the crampedness and the loneliness were doing nothing to decrease.

  2. The degree to which something is damp or moist.

    • The dampness in the writing paper caused the ink to spread and smudge.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at dampness. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01dampness02moist03watery04diluted05added06add07elements08weather09humidity

A definitional loop anchored at dampness. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at dampness

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA