|  wateriness 
 
 1. the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water
 - 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
 • Syn:
 muddiness, sloppiness
 • Derivationally related forms:
 sloppy (for: sloppiness), muddy (for: muddiness), watery
 • Hypernyms:
 wetness
 2. meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food)
 - 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
 • Derivationally related forms:
 watery
 • Hypernyms:
 meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness,
 scantness, exiguity
 3. the property of resembling the viscosity of water
 • Derivationally related forms:
 watery
 • Hypernyms:
 thinness
 
 
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