• Moistness

    Origin

    From moist + -ness.

    Full definition of moistness

    Noun

    moistness

    (uncountable)
    1. The property of being moist.
    2. (obsolete) Moisture.
      • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.12: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.
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