wa•ter•i•ness
We found 6 definitions of wateriness from 4 different sources.
NounPlural: waterinesses |
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wateriness - 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" | ||
muddiness, sloppiness | ||
wetness the condition of containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water); "he confirmed the wetness of the swimming trunks" | ||
wateriness - the property of resembling the viscosity of water | ||
thinness a consistency of low viscosity; "he disliked the thinness of the soup" | ||
wateriness - 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" | ||
exiguity, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness, leanness, poorness the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot |