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Wateriness

noun
1.
The wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water.  Synonyms: muddiness, sloppiness.  "The water's muddiness made it undrinkable" , "The sloppiness of a rainy November day"
2.
Meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food).  "The wateriness of his blood" , "No one enjoys the burning of his soup or the wateriness of his potatoes"
3.
The property of resembling the viscosity of water.





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"Wateriness" Quotes from Famous Books



... self-introspection of the Christian and the eternally recurring question "What shall I do to be saved?"—the comparison is not favorable to the latter. There is (at any rate in modern days) a mawkish milk-and-wateriness about the Christian attitude, and also a painful self-consciousness, which is not pleasant; and though Nietzsche's blonde beast is a sufficiently disagreeable animal, one almost thinks that it were better to be THAT than to go about with one's ...
— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter


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