clamminess

noun

1. (uncountable)The state of being clammy.

   “Bread made of Pannick nouriſheth little, and is cold and dry, verie brittle, hauing in it neither clammineſſe, nor fatneſſe; and therefore it drieth a moiſt belly.”

   “He vanished over the rock and Bradly struggled up into his place. Down in a crevasse the trooper was tugging at something wedged there, which looked like a sodden bundle of old rags till it was pushed up the rock to Bradly, who had to quell repugnance and take a grip of it. Under his hands it had the unstable clamminess of all dead flesh.”