0 (especially of buildings and air) the fact 0f being wet, cold, and unpleasant: --
Customers also complained of what many characterized as a dankness emanating from the double dorms.
The smell of dankness and dampness pervaded everything.
At about 4 o'clock, the dankness lifted.
I moved into the basement of their house and seldom came up from its dankness.
