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Word entry · 7 letters

wetness

Best crossword clue

"Damp condition"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈwɛt.nəs/Part of speech nounSorted eensstwStarts with WEnds with S2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the condition of containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water)

Word origin

From Middle English wetnes, wetnesse, from Old English wǣtnes (“moisture, wetness”). By surface analysis, wet + -ness.

Used in a sentence

  • The young man looked long and fixedly on the place, the sight of which interested him so much that he had forgotten, in the eagerness of youthful curiosity, the wetness of his dress.
  • The first business was to make a fire, an operation which was a little delayed by the wetness of the fuel and the ground, owing to the heavy showers of the afternoon.
  • “Oh! if I had my gravity,” thought she, contemplating the water, “I would flash off this balcony like a long white sea-bird, headlong into the darling wetness. Heigh-ho!”

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Damp condition7 letters
02Water on a surface7 letters

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