Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or condition of being wet; also, the capacity for communicating moisture or making wet: as, the wetness of the atmosphere or of steam.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being wet; moisture; humidity.
- noun A watery or moist state of the atmosphere; a state of being rainy, foggy, or misty.
- noun colloq. Sweat or sweating; -- a euphemism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
condition of beingwet . - noun
Moisture . - noun
Rainy ordamp weather .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the condition of containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water)
Etymologies
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Examples
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As for the wetness of H2O, from its chemical properties, the hydrogen bond, and the 104-degree angle at which the two hydrogen atoms orient as each shares an electron with the single oxygen atom, we could predict that if there were enough H2O molecules present, we would find the properties of what we refer to as wetness.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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As for the wetness of H2O, from its chemical properties, the hydrogen bond, and the 104-degree angle at which the two hydrogen atoms orient as each shares an electron with the single oxygen atom, we could predict that if there were enough H2O molecules present, we would find the properties of what we refer to as wetness.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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FRANKEN: You know, it's interesting, the rain, of course would bring in the wetness, which is a conductor for cold and all that.
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But he sighed with satisfaction and she relaxed and knew that the sound was erotic and that the wetness was a part of her female response, an invitation to an easy penetration of her body.
Beyond the Sunrise Balogh, Mary 1992
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The often-felt, localized, sweet, warm, white wetness, which is associated with sucking, now forms an idea, and one of the earliest ideas.
The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. William T. Preyer 1869
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We can tell you Reynolds was wearing a black suit and quite possibly some kind of wetness concealing underwear he is pushing seventy if that’ll help.
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He lay on his back, drew her over him until he felt another kind of wetness engulf him.
The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983
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In the way water is one part oxygen and two parts hydrogen and a property of "wetness" emerges, it is imagined that objective moral obligations emerge from a similar kind of collocation of natural properties.
Ochuk's blog 2008
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(or "wetness"), snow type, temperature changes, wind and the nature of past snowfall.
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I played with the wetness on its head a moment longer, then lifted my hand to my mouth, expecting his gaze to follow.
My Fair Succubi Jill Myles 2011
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