moistness

English

moistness (countable and uncountable, plural moistnesses)

The property of being moist.
(obsolete) That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
  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.

moistness — see also moisture