What is "clamminess"

Usage examples of "clamminess".

The air was cold, with a suffocating clamminess that cut through his soggy clothes and felt raw and thick in his throat.

Nausea, clamminess, the chill sweat of Death forcing him to concentrate.

Another, probably saner, part was aware of the clamminess of my palms.

Instantly, I poured all my remaining strength into the tenuous contact, ignoring the clamminess of my palms.

She leaned back against the dry, flaky bark of the sycamore, releasing Dacey so he couldn't feel the sudden clamminess of her hands.

Indeed, she felt that telltale clamminess on her brow, that damp chill on the nape of her neck, in the small of her back, and on her palms -- an icy moistness that had but one name dreaded from the high proscenium arches of Broadway to the lowest stages of boondocks honkytonks: flop sweat.

Indeed, she felt that telltale clamminess on her brow, that damp chill on the nape of her neck, in the small of her back, and on her palms - an icy moistness that had but one name dreaded from the high proscenium arches of Broadway to the lowest stages of boondocks honkytonks: flop sweat.

A sickly clamminess enveloped him as he sensed some­thing sandpapering his soul.

A sickly clamminess enveloped him as he sensed something sandpapering his soul.