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noun

Wetness n.

The quality or state of being wet; moisture; humidity; as, the wetness of land; the wetness of a cloth.

A watery or moist state of the atmosphere; a state of being rainy, foggy, or misty; as, the wetness of weather or the season. Note: Wetness generally implies more water or liquid than is implied by humidness or moisture.

Sweat or sweating; a euphemism. (Colloq.)

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"Wetness" Quotes from Famous Books

... wife emerged with a pail. He stepped quietly aside, on to his side garden, among the sweet herbs. He could smell rosemary and sage and hyssop. A low wall divided his garden from his neighbour's. He put his hand on it, on its wetness, ready to drop over should his wife come forward. But she only threw the contents of her pail on the garden and retired again. She might have seen him had she looked. He remained standing where he was, listening to the trickle of ...

— Aaron's Rod • D. H. Lawrence

... the best use to which the green fields of Holland can be put, is the raising of grass to feed cattle; for the wetness of the land, which makes it somewhat unsuitable to be ploughed, causes grass to grow upon it very luxuriantly. Accordingly, as you ride through the country along the great railway lines, you see, every where, herds of cattle and flocks of sheep feeding in the meadows that extend ...

— Rollo in Holland • Jacob Abbott

... off the rocks in the darkness was awkward work. The boat would have bumped dangerously if allowed to ride in with the waves that drove into the cove. I found a flat rock for my feet, which were in a bad way owing to cold, wetness, and lack of exercise in the boat, and during the next few hours I laboured to keep the 'James Caird' clear of the beach. Occasionally I had to rush into the seething water. Then, as a wave receded, I let the boat out on the alpine rope so as to avoid a sudden jerk. The heavy painter ...

— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton

... wet," said Kitty, looking at her shoes; "but it's a delicious kind of a wetness. Dew is awful different ...

— Marjorie's Maytime • Carolyn Wells

... the rain. When it and the water from a broken gutter, striking a balustrade beside him, splashed him with fine spray, he made no effort to move. Why should he care? He was only a worthless old nigger. A little wetness more or less would make no difference. A carelessness for all things earthly and pertaining to his own worn-out old body grew upon him. Then he suddenly ceased to think of himself. The sound of the rain in his ears seemed to be boring into his brain. Steady, inexorable, unanswerable as fate, ...

— McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. • Various

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