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UK
/wˈɔːtəɹinəs/
]
NOUN
- the property of resembling the viscosity of water
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meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food)
no one enjoys the burning of his soup or the wateriness of his potatoes
the wateriness of his blood
the haziness and wateriness of his disquisitions -
the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water
the baseball game was canceled because of the wateriness of the outfield
the sloppiness of a rainy November day
the water's muddiness made it undrinkable
How To Use wateriness In A Sentence
- The novel written by her is more telling story than artistic, and newness in wateriness.
- Other than the wateriness, it was really quite good, if a bit too spicy for my tastes.
- It will lessen the itchiness, wateriness and the redness of the sore eyes.
- the baseball game was canceled because of the wateriness of the outfield
- Milking staff should look for clots, strings, wateriness or discolouration of milk.
- And saw the check jacket the moment he adjusted the focus of the glasses, emerging from the wateriness of grass and sunlight. THE LAST RAVEN
- Judged by wateriness alone, the state is closer to the Netherlands than Nebraska.
- It has all the flavor of a bell pepper packed into a wall with one half the thickness, and none of the wateriness to chew your way through.
- He was now thirty-six years of age, but because of his excess weight and the wateriness of his eyes, the discolouration of his teeth, and the blotchiness of his puttylike skin, he seemed older. Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile
- the wateriness of his blood