English noun: wateriness | |||
1. | wateriness (state) the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water | ||
Samples | The baseball game was canceled because of the wateriness of the outfield. The water's muddiness made it undrinkable. The sloppiness of a rainy November day. | ||
Synonyms | muddiness, sloppiness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | wetness | ||
2. | wateriness (attribute) meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food) | ||
Samples | The haziness and wateriness of his disquisitions. The wateriness of his blood. No one enjoys the burning of his soup or the wateriness of his potatoes. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness | ||
3. | wateriness (attribute) the property of resembling the viscosity of water | ||
Broader (hypernym) | thinness | ||