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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
wateriness is a noun meaning "the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water". It carries 3 recorded senses.
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”
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”
the property of resembling the viscosity of water
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wateriness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.