mugginess en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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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.
Meanings
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(uncountable) 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.
2022 June 13, Raymond Zhong, “How Extreme Heat Kills, Sickens, Strains and Ages Us”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
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