wateriness
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (3)
- 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”Synonyms: muddinesssloppinessType of wetness
- 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”Type of meagerness, meagreness
- the property of resembling the viscosity of waterType of thinness
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Wa′ter·i·ness noun
The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54