MEANING
An unpleasant damp, chilly quality in a place or material.
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Words that belong together
- dankness of the cellar
- damp dankness
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The cellar's dankness clung to their clothes after they left.
Word forms
- Base
- dankness
Usage notes
Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common.
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