wetness

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English wetnes, wetnesse, from Old English wǣtnes (“moisture, wetness”). By surface analysis, wet +‎ -ness. === Pronunciation === (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈwɛt.nəs/ Rhymes: -ɛtnəs === Noun === wetness (usually uncountable, plural wetnesses) The condition of being wet. Moisture. Rainy or damp weather. 1797, Tobias Smollett et al., The History of England, from the Revolution to the End of the American War and the Peace of Versailles in 1783, Philadelphia: Robert Campbell, Volume 4, Book 5, p. 484,[5] They complained, that the wetness of the season, and the scarcity of fodder in the year 1762, with other natural causes, had reduced the quantity of fat cattle, by discouraging the farmers from rearing them. ==== Antonyms ==== dryness ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === westens