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Vinony

mugginess

noun

  1. condition or degree of high humidity
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English muggy Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English mugginess From muggy + -ness.

  1. The characteristic of being muggy.

    “They found that their subjects started overheating dangerously at much lower “wet-bulb” temperatures—a measure that accounts for both heat and mugginess—than what they had expected based on previous theoretical estimates by climate scientists.”