mugginess

muggy +‎ -ness

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mugginess (uncountable)

1. The characteristic of being muggy.
   • 2022 June 13, Raymond Zhong, “How Extreme Heat Kills, Sickens, Strains and Ages Us”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     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.

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