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Clamminess

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clam·my  (klm)
adj. clam·mi·er, clam·mi·est
1. Disagreeably moist, sticky, and cold to the touch: a clammy handshake.
2. Damp and unpleasant: clammy weather.
3. Uneasy; apprehensive: The ghost town gave us a clammy feeling.
[Middle English, sticky, probably from clam (from Old English, mud, clay) or from Middle Low German klam, stickiness.]
clammi·ly adv.
clammi·ness n.
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Noun1.clamminess - unpleasant wetness
dankness
damp, dampness, moistness - a slight wetness
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They writhed upon my throat; their cold lips sought my own; I was half stifled by their thronging pressure; disgust, for which the world has no name, swelled my bosom, and chilled, with a heavy clamminess, my heart.
The Pit and the Pendulum by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
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