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Mist vs Dankness - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between mist and dankness

is that mist is water or other liquid finely suspended in air while dankness is the state or quality of being dank.

As a verb mist

is to form mist.

mist

English

(wikipedia mist)

Noun

  • (uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.
    • It was difficult to see through the morning mist .
  • (countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.
    • There was an oily mist on the lens .
  • (figurative) Anything that dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.
  • * Dryden
    • His passion cast a mist before his sense.

    Derived terms

    * misty * mists of time * red mist

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form mist.
    • It's misting this morning.
  • To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
    • I mist my tropical plants every morning.
  • To cover with a mist.
    • The lens was misted .
    (Shakespeare)
  • (of the eyes) To be covered by tears.
    • My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.

    Derived terms

    * mist over

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    dankness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or quality of being dank.