humidification
noun
humidification is a noun meaning “The process of increasing the water vapour content of a gas” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-U-M-I-D-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of humidification is humidifications.
What does humidification mean?
noun
- 1
The process of increasing the water vapour content of a gas.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of humidification
- humidifications plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is humidification?
Humidification appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Humidification in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense process:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | humidification |
| German | Befeuchtung |
| Portuguese | humidificação, umidificação |
| Spanish | humidificación |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does humidification come from?
From humid + -ification.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).