WATERINESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

Meaning:

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

Example:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

Derivation:

watery (overly diluted; thin and insipid)

Meaning:

The wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water

Example:

the sloppiness of a rainy November day

Synonyms:

muddiness; sloppiness; wateriness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

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

Derivation:

watery (filled with water)