wateriness#1 (n)

n05113929

type n
lex_filenum 07
def meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food)
examples 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
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Hypernym meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity
Derivationally related form wateriness → watery
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Derivationally related form watery → wateriness
Hyponym meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity

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