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Wateriness

noun
1.
The wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water.  Synonyms: muddiness, sloppiness.  "The water's muddiness made it undrinkable" , "The sloppiness of a rainy November day"
2.
Meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food).  "The wateriness of his blood" , "No one enjoys the burning of his soup or the wateriness of his potatoes"
3.
The property of resembling the viscosity of water.





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"Wateriness" Quotes from Famous Books



... was Sarah's name for Pin, on account of her perpetual wateriness. "Be a cry-baby, do." But she was not damped, she was lost in the pleasure ...
— The Getting of Wisdom • Henry Handel Richardson


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