wateriness

wateriness
noun
1. the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water
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the baseball game was canceled because of the wateriness of the outfield

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the water's muddiness made it undrinkable

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the sloppiness of a rainy November day

• Syn: ↑muddiness, ↑sloppiness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑sloppy (for: ↑sloppiness), ↑muddy (for: ↑muddiness), ↑watery
• Hypernyms: ↑wetness
2. meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food)
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the haziness and wateriness of his disquisitions

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the wateriness of his blood

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no one enjoys the burning of his soup or the wateriness of his potatoes

• Derivationally related forms: ↑watery
• Hypernyms:
3. the property of resembling the viscosity of water
• Derivationally related forms: ↑watery
• Hypernyms: ↑thinness

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  • Wateriness — Wa ter*i*ness, n. The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • wateriness — [wôt′ər ē nis] n. the state or quality of being watery …   English World dictionary

  • wateriness — noun see watery …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • wateriness — /waw teuh ree nis, wot euh /, n. the state or condition of being watery or diluted. [1350 1400; ME; see WATERY, NESS] * * * …   Universalium

  • wateriness — noun the state of being watery …   Wiktionary

  • wateriness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The state or quality of being insipid: blandness, innocuousness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, vapidity, vapidness, washiness. Informal: wishy washiness. See EXCITE, TASTE …   English dictionary for students

  • wateriness — wa·ter·i·ness || wÉ”tÉ™rɪnɪs , wÉ‘ / wɔː n. property of resembling water …   English contemporary dictionary

  • wateriness — wa·ter·i·ness …   English syllables

  • wateriness — wa•ter•i•ness [[t]ˈwɔ tə ri nɪs, ˈwɒt ə [/t]] n. the state or condition of being watery or diluted • Etymology: 1350–1400 …   From formal English to slang

  • wateriness — /ˈwɔtərinəs/ (say wawtuhreenuhs) noun a watery state. {water(y) + i 2 + ness} …  

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