sweatiness
- noun
- /ˈswɛtɪnəs/
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sudoración
- She noticed the sweatiness of her forehead after running for an hour.
Examples
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I was bitterly disappointed by their inelegance: all the bobbles, all the clumsiness, all the heavy-breathing sweatiness.
Academic text (1991) -
When she held it to her nose, there was a carpenter's day—cut wood, sun, breezy sweatiness.
Fiction book (1993) -
Earning what their sweatiness fetches
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Like... sweatiness.
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- Good, well I'd rather hear that than some vile scene of him rubbing his naked sweatiness against you.
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And when Richie came offstage and the stage manager knocked, Nina would hold Cee Cee's hand, feeling the sweatiness of her palms, which never went away no matter how many times she did the show, and walk out to the wings with her.
Fiction book (1991) -
The heat and humidity led to an uncomfortable sweatiness that made everyone feel sticky.
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During the workout, his shirt was soaked through with the sweatiness caused by intense exercise.
Synonyms
12
2.5
A salty liquid that the body makes when it is hot, active, or nervous
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1.1
Your skin makes a salty liquid to cool your body
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9.9
The glands in the skin make sweat that comes to the surface
The skin making sweat to cool the body
Antonyms
How Sweaty
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sweatiness comes from the common word sweat, which means 'perspiration', plus the endings -y and -ness that make a noun meaning 'the state of being'. So sweatiness is simply the state of being sweaty.