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Wateriness

noun

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"

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"

The property of resembling the viscosity of water.

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... and vaporisation at a third, properties of water, we mean that matter which did not liquefy, congeal, and evaporate at different temperatures would not be water. The habits of exhibiting these phenomena, in conjunction with certain other habits, make up the aquosity or wateriness of water. They are parts of water's nature, and, in the absence of any one of them, water would not be its own self, and could not exist. But in no such sense, nor in any sense whatever, is the life or vitality whereby what we are accustomed to call animated are distinguished from inanimate objects, ...

— Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics - With Some of Their Applications • William Thomas Thornton