Definitions
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!””
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Damp condition”7 letters
02“Water on a surface”7 letters
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