English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English humidite, from Old French humidité, from Medieval Latin humiditas, from Latin umidus (“damp, moist, wet”).
Morphologically humid + -ity
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /hjuːˈmɪd.ə.ti/, /hjuːˈmɪd.ɪ.ti/
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- (US) IPA(key): /hjuˈmɪd.ə.ti/, [hjuˈmɪɾ.ə.ti], [hjuˈmɪɾ.ə.ɾi]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /hjʉːˈmɪd.ə.ti/, [hjuːˈmɪɾ.ə.ti], [hjuːˈmɪɾ.ə.ɾi]
- Rhymes: -ɪdəti
- Hyphenation: hu‧mi‧di‧ty
humidity (usually uncountable, plural humidities)
- Dampness, especially that of the air.
- The amount of water vapour in the air.
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Translations[edit]
dampness, especially that of the air
- Albanian: lagështi (sq) f
- Arabic: رُطُوبَة f (ruṭūba)
- Armenian: խոնավություն (hy) (xonavutʻyun)
- Asturian: humedanza f
- Azerbaijani: rütubət (az)
- Bashkir: дымлылыҡ (dımlılıq)
- Basque: hezetasun
- Belarusian: вільго́тнасць f (vilʹhótnascʹ)
- Breton: glebiadur (br) m
- Bulgarian: вла́жност (bg) f (vlážnost)
- Catalan: humitat (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 濕度／湿度 (zh) (shīdù)
- Czech: vlhkost (cs) f
- Danish: luftfugtighed (da) c
- Dutch: luchtvochtigheid (nl) f
- Esperanto: humideco
- Estonian: õhuniiskus
- Finnish: kosteus (fi)
- French: humidité (fr) f
- Galician: humidade (gl) f
- Georgian: ტენიანობა (ṭenianoba), სინესტე (sinesṭe), ნესტიანობა (nesṭianoba), ჰაერის ტენიანობა (haeris ṭenianoba)
- German: Feuchtigkeit (de) f
- Greek: υγρασία (el) f (ygrasía)
- Guaraní: te'õ
- Haitian Creole: imidite
- Hebrew: לַחוּת (he) f (lakhút)
- Hindi: नम (hi) f (nam), नमी (hi) f (namī), आर्द्रता (hi) f (ārdratā), गीलापन (hi) m (gīlāpan)
- Hungarian: nyirkosság (hu)
- Ilocano: dam-eg
- Indonesian: kelembapan (id)
- Irish: bogthaise
- Italian: umidità (it)
- Japanese: 湿気 (ja) (しっけ, shikke), 湿度 (ja) (しつど, shitsudo)
- Kazakh: ылғалдылық (ylğaldylyq)
- Khmer: សំណើម (km) (sɑmnaəm), សន្សើម (km) (sɑnsaəm)
- Korean: 습도 (ko) (seupdo), 습기 (ko) (seupgi)
- Kyrgyz: нымдуулук (nımduuluk)
- Lao: ຄວາມຊຸ່ມ (lo) (khuām sum), ຄວາມຊຶ້ນ (khuām sưn)
- Latvian: mitrums m
- Lithuanian: drėgmė f
- Macedonian: влага f (vlaga), влажност f (vlažnost)
- Malay: kelembapan (ms)
- Maori: pīpīwai
- Navajo: níłchʼi ditłééʼ
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: luftfuktighet m or f
- Nynorsk: fukt
- Persian: رطوبت (fa) (rotubat), نم (fa) (nam)
- Polish: wilgotność (pl)
- Portuguese: umidade (pt) f (Brazil), humidade (pt) f (Portugal)
- Romanian: umezeală (ro) f, umiditate (ro) f
- Russian: вла́жность (ru) f (vlážnostʹ)
- Scots: humidity
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: вла̏жно̄ст f
- Roman: vlȁžnōst (sh) f
- Shawiya: illumeḍ
- Sicilian: muḍḍura f
- Sindhi: اٻس f
- Slovak: vlhkosť f
- Slovene: vlažnost f
- Somali: dhado (so)
- Spanish: humedad (es) f
- Swahili: unyevuanga
- Swedish: luftfuktighet (sv) c
- Tagalog: halumigmig, hamil, sayimsim
- Tajik: рутубат (rutubat), намӣ (tg) (namī), тарӣ (tarī), нам (tg) (nam)
- Thai: ความชื้น (th) (kwaam-chʉ́ʉn)
- Turkish: nem (tr)
- Turkmen: yzgar
- Ukrainian: воло́гість f (volóhistʹ)
- Uzbek: namlik (uz)
- Vietnamese: độ ẩm (vi), tình trạng ẩm ướt, ẩm độ
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amount of water vapour in the air
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