WATERINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wateriness mean? 

• WATERINESS (noun)
  The noun WATERINESS has 3 senses:

1. the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water

2. meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food)

3. the property of resembling the viscosity of water

  Familiarity information: WATERINESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATERINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

muddiness; sloppiness; wateriness

Context example:

the sloppiness of a rainy November day

Hypernyms ("wateriness" is a kind of...):

wetness (the condition of containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water))

Derivation:

watery (filled with water)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

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

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 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)