moisture

noun
/ˈmɔɪs.t͡ʃə/UK/ˈmɔɪs.t͡ʃɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English moisture, from Old French moistour (“moisture, dampness, wetness”). Compare French moiteur.

  1. derived from moistour
  2. inherited from moisture

Definitions

  1. That which moistens or makes damp or wet

    That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity.

    • drops / beads of moisture
    • I cannot weep; for all my body’s moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart:
    • And some [seed] fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
  2. The state of being moist.

    • […] all Exclusion of Open Aire, (which is euer Predatory) maintaineth the Body in his first Freshnesse, and Moisture:
    • Such was the discord, which did first disperse Forme, order, beauty through the universe; While drynesse moisture, coldnesse heat resists, All that we have, and that we are subsists:
    • [The organs of touch are excited] by the unceasing variations of the heat, moisture, and pressure of the atmosphere;
  3. Skin moisture noted as dry, moist, clammy, or diaphoretic as part of the skin signs…

    Skin moisture noted as dry, moist, clammy, or diaphoretic as part of the skin signs assessment.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at moisture. 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.

01moisture02moistens03moisten04moist05watery06soaked07drenched08wet

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

8 hops · closes at moisture

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