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usually uncountable, plural dampnesses
Moderate humidity; moisture; moistness; the state or quality of being damp. quotations examples
With 3,600 h.p. underfoot, acceleration was reasonably brisk, but the flickering wheel-slip indicator light showed the prudence of not putting full power through the traction motors while there were traces of early-morning dampness on the rails.
1960 August, R. K. Evans, “Railway Modernisation in Spain”, in Trains Illustrated, page 494
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.
1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 136
The degree to which something is damp or moist. examples