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Water Isn't Wet
Technically, being wet means being covered or saturated with water or another liquid, so water isn't wet, it is the wetness. See also Science.
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actually one water molecule is covered with more water so water is wet
n/a on May 8, 2020
For something to make something else wet, it has to be wet itself, therefore, water has to be wet.
jeff on May 10, 2020
Water is wet cuz if something is soaked or drenched it's still not 100% wet ya know cuz it's not all water. See what I did there. It's not all wet but if it is only water it is 100% wet. aka just water.
SKSKSKS on May 12, 2020
Stop trying to say water is wet, it's like saying sugar is sugary. An adjective being used to describe the word it's derived from is pointless. Yes I am an english nerd.
on May 16, 2020
Ah yes, i do too enjoy my unwet, dry water
on May 16, 2020
Ah! This old argument! I think it has to do with what you mean by the word "wet." Some people perceive wet as being anything that *feels* wet to the touch, and so water would naturally be wet. Others (like me) perceive the word "wet" to mean anything being covered in water, which water can't be because something can't be covered in itself just by being itself.
puh-TAH-toe on May 17, 2020
Wet means touching or being covered in water. Water is (almost) always touching other water, so unless you isolate one single H2O molecule, water is wet.
WATER IS WET U GUYS on May 20, 2020
no, it would just be a larger body of water
L R S on May 21, 2020
WATER IS WET
WATER IS WET on September 10, 2020
THERE IS NO ARGUMENT WATER IS WET
WATER IS WET on September 10, 2020
ohhohoho this good ol' argument, if you say the water molocules are wet makes water wet, well thats incorrect, the water MOLOCULE is wet, not the water itself, for something to be wet a liquid has to be on it correct? therefore water itself is not wet, just everything it touches.
pasta on October 5, 2020
If anything water touches is wet, then when water molecules are touching they are wet, meaning that unless you isolate a single molecule of water, then it is wet.
dat person on November 4, 2020
but are'nt all water molecules coverd in and thus wet?
me on April 27, 2021
My friend be like....(she asked the whole class this and caused a year long discussion)
Water is wet on May 6, 2021
This is very controversial.
Yeetaleetthesecond on October 22, 2021
Google says "Water is wet, in the sense of being a liquid which flows easily, because its viscosity is low, which is because its molecules are rather loosely joined together."
:) on April 30, 2022
But water is constantly touching water, so...
Nonyanae on May 23, 2022
Without water, life would be so dry, (that means water is wet)
Super potato on July 17, 2022
Oh my gosh me and my brother have had this argument for years. Water itself isn't wet. The object containing the water is wet. If you stick your hand in water, it isn't wet until you take it out again.
adhd for life on October 5, 2022
water is, in fact, usually covered in more water
i love kittens on March 16, 2024
no your wrong because water, unless it is just ONE molecule, is covered in more water (which could be called Dihygrogen Monoxide) soooo.......
a very smart guy on December 18, 2025
WATER IS NOT WET
Snakecat on May 21, 2026
The sensation of wetness is a learned cognitive perception rather than an intrinsic physical property of water itself, meaning that water cannot technically be classified as wet. Wetness is defined as the ability of a liquid to adhere to the surface of a solid material, a process governed by the interaction between cohesive forces, which hold the water molecules together via hydrogen bonding, and adhesive forces, which attract the liquid to the solid surface. For an object to become wet, adhesive forces must overcome cohesive forces, causing the liquid to spread across the material and coat it. Because water molecules are surrounded entirely by other water molecules in a continuous fluid state, they are experiencing pure cohesion rather than adhesion to a foreign solid surface. Therefore, while water possesses the ability to make other non-water substances wet by saturating their porous structures or adhering to their surfaces, the liquid mass itself cannot coat itself or experience its own wetting action. Ultimately, water is the agent that causes the state of wetness, making "wet" a description of a solid's interaction with a liquid rather than a definition of the liquid itself.
Snakecat on May 21, 2026