What's the difference between mugginess and muggy?
Mugginess
Definition:
(n.) The condition or quality of being muggy.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a vivid green morning, the air muggy and sad.
(2) Willian is believed to have "held talks" with Chelsea, in which pleasantries about the muggy London weather, the comfort of his hotel room and the size of the number that will appear on his weekly pay-cheque were almost certainly discussed.
(3) "Bit of an education," she murmurs as they walk into the muggy heat.
(4) That Palace should still end up inflicting a second defeat in four matches for the champions thanks to Joel Ward’s winning goal, stabbed in after more good work by Bakary Sako, was both fair reward and a fair reflection of the poverty of Chelsea’s performance at a muggy, uncomfortably close Stamford Bridge.
(5) Ghostpoet's music is perfect for that atmosphere of muggy dread.
(6) While plying his trade in the cold, blustery conditions of Arbroath's Gayfield Park on Scotland's North Sea coast isn't exactly perfect preparation for the expected 90% humidity of Natal in July, Deuchar has played in similarly muggy climates during his time with Real Salt Lake in the US and was an integral part in helping the fledgling club to their first Major League Soccer play-off appearance in 2008, earning him the nickname Doctor Goals.
(7) In these paintings, imitations of cave drawing (without the dexterity of the real thing) mix with muggy abstractions and Jackson Pollock-like paint splashes.
(8) Romelu Lukaku continued to wage his personal crusade against West Ham, scoring on his seventh successive appearance against the Hammers on a muggy, wet afternoon at a subdued Upton Park.
(9) One can only pity the actors who turned out for filming at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral on Saturday in full Cybermen costume, as temperatures hit a muggy 28C.
(10) For an afternoon in the muggy Swiss sun, and for 45 minutes on the pitch, Liverpool turned Basel red.
(11) On a muggy, misty December morning it took more like 50 minutes as traffic crawled along the coast road past joggers, cyclists and Cariocas playing football and volleyball on the beach.
(12) The pitch-side air was muggy but this did not stop Charlton Athletic’s Johan Gudmundsson enjoying a flying start, rattling Almer’s right-post with a peach of a 25-yarder virtually from kick-off.
(13) At Quai des Celestins, near Place de la Bastille, on a Friday morning, the traffic speeding along the riverside highway flanking the muggy grey Seine is relentless.
(14) Stepping on to a red carpet at the Royal Malaysian Air Base, Obama was whisked by limousine to Kuala Lumpur's Parliament Square, where a 21-gun salute rang out as Malaysia's king and prime minister greeted Obama under muggy skies and a yellow awning.
(15) Inside, the windows were misted up and the air was dank and muggy.
(16) It’s Valentine’s Day, a muggy Saturday afternoon, and a group calling itself Resistant Citizen is staging a rare anti-coup protest in the middle of the Siam Square shopping district.
Muggy
Definition:
(superl.) Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw.
(superl.) Warm, damp, and close; as, muggy air, weather.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a vivid green morning, the air muggy and sad.
(2) Willian is believed to have "held talks" with Chelsea, in which pleasantries about the muggy London weather, the comfort of his hotel room and the size of the number that will appear on his weekly pay-cheque were almost certainly discussed.
(3) "Bit of an education," she murmurs as they walk into the muggy heat.
(4) That Palace should still end up inflicting a second defeat in four matches for the champions thanks to Joel Ward’s winning goal, stabbed in after more good work by Bakary Sako, was both fair reward and a fair reflection of the poverty of Chelsea’s performance at a muggy, uncomfortably close Stamford Bridge.
(5) Ghostpoet's music is perfect for that atmosphere of muggy dread.
(6) While plying his trade in the cold, blustery conditions of Arbroath's Gayfield Park on Scotland's North Sea coast isn't exactly perfect preparation for the expected 90% humidity of Natal in July, Deuchar has played in similarly muggy climates during his time with Real Salt Lake in the US and was an integral part in helping the fledgling club to their first Major League Soccer play-off appearance in 2008, earning him the nickname Doctor Goals.
(7) In these paintings, imitations of cave drawing (without the dexterity of the real thing) mix with muggy abstractions and Jackson Pollock-like paint splashes.
(8) Romelu Lukaku continued to wage his personal crusade against West Ham, scoring on his seventh successive appearance against the Hammers on a muggy, wet afternoon at a subdued Upton Park.
(9) One can only pity the actors who turned out for filming at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral on Saturday in full Cybermen costume, as temperatures hit a muggy 28C.
(10) For an afternoon in the muggy Swiss sun, and for 45 minutes on the pitch, Liverpool turned Basel red.
(11) On a muggy, misty December morning it took more like 50 minutes as traffic crawled along the coast road past joggers, cyclists and Cariocas playing football and volleyball on the beach.
(12) The pitch-side air was muggy but this did not stop Charlton Athletic’s Johan Gudmundsson enjoying a flying start, rattling Almer’s right-post with a peach of a 25-yarder virtually from kick-off.
(13) At Quai des Celestins, near Place de la Bastille, on a Friday morning, the traffic speeding along the riverside highway flanking the muggy grey Seine is relentless.
(14) Stepping on to a red carpet at the Royal Malaysian Air Base, Obama was whisked by limousine to Kuala Lumpur's Parliament Square, where a 21-gun salute rang out as Malaysia's king and prime minister greeted Obama under muggy skies and a yellow awning.
(15) Inside, the windows were misted up and the air was dank and muggy.
(16) It’s Valentine’s Day, a muggy Saturday afternoon, and a group calling itself Resistant Citizen is staging a rare anti-coup protest in the middle of the Siam Square shopping district.