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WATERINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of resembling the viscosity of water
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("wateriness" is a kind of...):
thinness (a consistency of low viscosity)
Derivation:
watery (overly diluted; thin and insipid)
watery (relating to or resembling or consisting of water)
watery (wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food)
Example:
no one enjoys the burning of his soup or the wateriness of his potatoes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("wateriness" is a kind of...):
exiguity; leanness; meagerness; meagreness; poorness; scantiness; scantness (the quality of being meager)
Derivation:
watery (overly diluted; thin and insipid)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water
Example:
the sloppiness of a rainy November day
Synonyms:
muddiness; sloppiness; wateriness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("wateriness" is a kind of...):
wetness (the condition of containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water))
Derivation:
watery (filled with water)
