Jul 25, 2022 · Water does not fulfill this condition of wetness. Therefore, it cannot be considered wet, at least not by itself. This argument is presented with an analogy of a fire and a piece of wood. If fire touches wood, it burns it. Similarly, if water touches wood, it makes it wet. If water is to be wet, is fire to be burnt? Concluding Remarks

Water is, in fact, wet as substantiated by George Orwell in 1984: "Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall toward the earth's center"(71).

Mar 6, 2018 · The substance we call water, H2O, can be wet only in the circumstance when it's solid form, ice, is covered in liquid water. Throw a bucket load of water into the air, we do not call the air wet. The closest thing we can approximate to "wet air" is humidity. Tl;dr- no, water by default is not wet.

Dec 11, 2021 · Water is actually not wet; It makes other materials/objects wet. Wetness is the state of a non-liquid when a liquid adheres to, and/or permeates its substance while maintaining chemically distinct structures.

Mar 21, 2019 · Yup. Saying “water is wet” is incorrect solely because “water” and “wet” become synonymous. Water is what allows us to classify things as “wet”. Water makes other things wet. But water itself cannot be wet because “wet” is an adjective that …

May 2, 2021 · The same thing goes with water. Water wets things, but the water itself is not wet. Wet as a noun. This is where water comes the closest to being described as wet. A noun is a person, place, or thing (Citation: my second-grade teacher). So to describe wet as a noun would give the word some sort of physical body. This would come in the form of ...

May 14, 2023 · Liquid water is not itself wet, but can make other solid materials wet. Wetness is the ability of a liquid to adhere to the surface of a solid, so when we say that something is wet, we mean that the liquid is sticking to the surface of a material.

Mar 26, 2021 · The Oxford dictionary defines water as wet Also, if I put oil on water then is it not wet? Also this is a fruitless conversation because there is no official definition for wet or for water seeing as there is no official dictionary

May 8, 2022 · So by looking at those 2 definitions google supports both arguments, “covered or saturated with water or another liquid.” Would say, no water is not wet, but what it touched becomes wet due to its properties. However the second definition “liquid that makes something damp.” Would support that water is, in fact, wet due to water being a ...

The fact that you can wet things with stuff other than water means that water itself is not the wetness, but liquid is Liquid is wet- water is wet but only by virtue of being a liquid. Upholding this point is the fact that water ceases to be wet after phase change- ice is dry until it melts.