1.
[syn: wateriness, muddiness, sloppiness]
2. meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food);
- Example: "the haziness and wateriness of his disquisitions"
- Example: "the wateriness of his blood"
- Example: "no one enjoys the burning of his soup or the wateriness of his potatoes"
3. the property of resembling the viscosity of water;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Wateriness \Wa"ter*i*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
wateriness
n 1: the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water;
"the baseball game was canceled because of the wateriness
of the outfield"; "the water's muddiness made it
undrinkable"; "the sloppiness of a rainy November day"
[syn: wateriness, muddiness, sloppiness]
2: meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in
a literary style as well as in a food); "the haziness and
wateriness of his disquisitions"; "the wateriness of his
blood"; "no one enjoys the burning of his soup or the
wateriness of his potatoes"
3: the property of resembling the viscosity of water