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Meaning of 'wateriness' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Wateriness [ n.]
- The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity.

Meaning of 'wateriness' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . wateriness [ n]
Meaning (1):
- meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food)
Example in sentence:
  • no one enjoys the burning of his soup or the wateriness of his potatoes;
  • the haziness and wateriness of his disquisitions;
  • the wateriness of his blood
Meaning (2):
- the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water
Example in sentence:
  • the baseball game was canceled because of the wateriness of the outfield;
  • the sloppiness of a rainy November day;
  • the water's muddiness made it undrinkable

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