waterinessn.

Brit.

/ˈwɔːt(ə)rɪnᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈwɔdərinᵻs/,

/ˈwɑdərinᵻs/

Forms: Middle English–1600s watrynes, Middle English–1600s watrynesse, 1500s watrines, 1500s–1600s waterines, 1500s–1600s waterinesse, 1500s–1600s watrinesse, 1600s watryness, 1600s–1700s watriness, 1600s– wateriness, 1700s– wateryness.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: watery adj., -ness suffix.

Etymology: < watery adj. + -ness suffix.In early use in sense 1a translating post-classical Latin aquositas aquosity n. It is uncertain whether the following instance (in sense 1b) shows the present word or a parallel formation < water n. + -ness suffix:c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 39 Superflue watrenes swette out fro þe place þat was wonte for to file many lynnen cloþes putte atwix.For further examples of waterness (in different senses) compare:?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 116 Boyle hem to-gedir with oyle of oliwe after þe qwantite of þe same herbis; and late hem ben boylyd soo longe ouer a softe fyir, tyll þe wyn and þe watirnesse of þe herbys been wastyd away.a1500 Dis. Women (Yale Med.) (1982) 47 Take clene stonys..and hete þem glowyng hote, þen quenche þem yn gotes mylke and þat schall consume þe waturnes of þe blode.

†1. concrete.

a. Watery liquid as a constituent of something. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > element or proportion in a material

waterinessa1398

water content1848

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. lxv. 1329 Mylk..is þe bettre and more holsom if þe most dele of watrynesse [L. aquositas] is consumpt and ywasted.

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 394 (MED) When it is colede, þrowe oute þe watrynesse [L. aquositas] and stampe þe fattenesse smalle in a morter.

1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount i. vi. 104 The moisture or watrinesse [Fr. l'humidité, ou aquosité] of the saied Quick siluer distilleth out in a vapour.

1678 R. Russel tr. Jabir ibn Haiyan Wks. Geber ii. i. iv. v. 94 It is expedient to remove, from things to be sublimed, the Wateriness only, with a very small Fire.

b. Abnormal watery liquid contained within the body or a part of the body. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [noun] > fluid secretion > watery fluid

waterOE

waterinessa1400

serosity1601

latex1650

sanies1661

serum1672

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 273 (MED) If hernia be watri..if þou pressist it wiþ þi fyngir, þou schalt fele watrynes þeron.

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 171 (MED) Oþer leches..done þe forsaide operacioun wiþ an actual cauterie..so þat þe watrynesse be drawen oute.

1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ii. f. 48^v/2 Let y^e head be epithemed in the place wher the aquositie or watrines [L. aqua] is.

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke iii. xxxii. 122 For that meate that is lose and moist, is apt to be turned into watrines.

1651 P. Armin tr. F. Glisson et al. Treat. Rickets 313 It is a powerful remedy against the Hydrocephalus, both Curative and Preservative, and very much conduceth..to evacuate the superfluous watriness thereof.

a. The quality in food or drink of containing excess water, or of being thin, weak, or insipid.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [noun] > sloppy food > sloppy quality

wateriness?c1425

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 113 Causes ben an alteratyf vertue made colde and euel-disposed and malice and watrynesse of metes [L. ciborum malicia et aquositas].

1650 tr. Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni (new ed.) 108 The first is, that they [sc. medlars] increase vrine: that is, by reason that they make the dregs hard, and so their waterines turns into much vrine.

1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry iii. xii. 415 The acidity and wateriness of the juice of the grapes.

1768 T. Wildman Treat. Managem. Bees iii. v. 103 The bees themselves would be in danger of being destroyed by the wateriness of the honey.

1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 243 They attempt to remedy the wateriness of the fish by exposing it spitted to a slow fire.

1870 R. Broughton Red as Rose I. iii. 37 What hero..can stand..the burning of his soup, or the wateriness of his potatoes?

1916 G. Bradshaw High School Cookery Bk. viii. 58 Wateriness of the custard is also due to over-cooking.

2001 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 8 Sept. 9 Saute the marrow in butter, which minimises its tendency to wateriness.

b. figurative. The quality or condition of being weak, insipid, or vapid; lack of distinctness or precision.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun]

feebleness1533

washiness1631

wateriness1660

wheyishness1803

inexpressiveness1815

ineffectiveness1865

nullity1883

wishy-washiness1891

1660 W. Secker Nonsuch Professor 295 Jesus Christ doth not..overshadow a beleevers Sun because of the watriness of its shining.

1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 28 587 The general haziness and wateriness of all his disquisitions.

1872 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera II. xiv. 20 The simplicity—or, shall we say wateriness,—of the style.

1937 V. Loggins I Hear Amer. xiii. 339 To realize the wateriness of O. Henry's slang one has only to compare it with Ring Lardner's.

2008 N.Y. Sun (Nexis) 16 Jan. (Arts & Lett. section) 16 The wateriness of the Schubert was replaced with crystalline, lapidary Debussy.

3. The condition of blood containing excess water; spec. (in later use) the condition in which blood volume is increased due to increased water content of the plasma (= hydraemia n.). Now rare or disused.Also: †the water content of blood (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > thinness of blood

wateriness?1543

fusion1710

hydrohaemia1840

hydraemia1845

?1543 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe x. f. lviii^v Yf such fluxe..happen of the watrynes of bloode [Fr. la grande aquosite du sang], gyve her to drynke..honye of roses.

1687 tr. P. Barbette Thes. Chirurgiæ (ed. 4) xv. 54 The Water gathers either by some Lymphatick Vessels burst, or from an unconcocted watriness of the Blood.

1845 Northern Jrnl. Med. 2 173 The wateriness of the blood has been reduced below its healthy standard.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 18 Mere wateriness of blood..does not cause an increased flow of bile.

1905 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 23 Dec. 1649/1 Chlorosis..is due largely to the wateriness of the blood.

1930 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 26 Apr. 781/1 There is a considerable diminution in the plasma bicarbonate values in these waterlogged subjects,..which is probably not due to hydraemia or wateriness of the blood.

4. Watery state or condition of the eyes; watering of the eyes; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > excretions from eye > [noun]

spadec725

tear971

goundc1000

wateriness?1550

eye-stream1591

eye-water1591

eye drop1600

guma1616

eye-brine1616

gowl1665

gore1741

teardrop1789

tearlet1858

sleep1922

sleeper1942

?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. E.v The greene leaues of the Plane tree sodden in wyne & vsed as a plaister cure the Rewme and watrines of the eyes.

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xvii. 94 It..dryeth up the teares, and watrinesse of the eyes.

1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iii. 363 Weakness, Wateryness, and Turgidity of the Eyes.

1819 J. G. Lockhart Peter's Lett. to Kinsfolk III. lxiv. 128 His eyes are black as jet..but the dazzle of their brilliancy is softened by a melancholy wateriness.

1859 G. A. Sala Gaslight & Daylight ii. 17 A wateriness in the eye, and a huskiness in the throat.

1949 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 85 232/1 The first prodrome is a noticeable hypersensitivity to light..The next is a slight wateriness of the eyes.

2011 Sunday Times (Nexis) 7 Aug. (Home section) 18 I was/am so allergic to horses that I could hardly see, such was the wateriness of my eyes and extent of my wheezing.

5. gen.

a. The state of being watery or of having an abundance of water; watery quality or nature.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > quality or state of being watery or like water

aquosity1528

waterishness1532

aqueity1612

wateriness1624

1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 186 Meere Iuglers and Impostors, that..seeke to..maske with great wordes the naked watrinesse of their Baptisme.

1684 J. Strype tr. J. Lightfoot Horæ Hebraicæ in Wks. II. 501 The place for the very wateriness of it [L. ob aquositatem] deserves to be call'd Aenon, that is, a place of springs.

1843 Mrs. H. Wood Change for Amer. Notes i. 13 What a puny offspring would their Thames appear.., widening to a respectable wateriness only as it nears the sea.

1883 H. James Portraits of Places xx. 373 More here, even, than on the Canada shore, you perceive the unlimited wateriness of the whole spectacle.

1904 Elizabeth in Rügen iv. 95 German female tourists are apt to be extraordinarily cordial in the water.., and will behave towards you, meeting you on this common ground of wateriness, as though they had known you..for years.

2002 Afr. Arts 35 14 The extreme wateriness of the Niger Delta clearly creates boundaries and opportunities for its human inhabitants.

†b. The state of being saturated with or submerged in water. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [noun] > with water

wateriness1789

water soak1867

1789 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire I. 208-9 The low situation of this vale..and the wateriness of its soils, through a want of surface-draining,—conspire to render it..singularly fatal to sheep.

1820 L. Hunt Indicator 1 Mar. 164 The sudden missing Of one's dry senses,—the deaf plunge and bubbling, And wrapping up in heavy wateriness.

1834 Leigh Hunt's London Jrnl. 9 July 114/1 [The fly in a tea cup] then stops, and sinks down, saturated and overborne with wateriness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	wateriness
释义	waterinessn. Brit. /ˈwɔːt(ə)rɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈwɔdərinᵻs/, /ˈwɑdərinᵻs/ Forms: Middle English–1600s watrynes, Middle English–1600s watrynesse, 1500s watrines, 1500s–1600s waterines, 1500s–1600s waterinesse, 1500s–1600s watrinesse, 1600s watryness, 1600s–1700s watriness, 1600s– wateriness, 1700s– wateryness. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: watery adj., -ness suffix. Etymology: < watery adj. + -ness suffix.In early use in sense 1a translating post-classical Latin aquositas aquosity n. It is uncertain whether the following instance (in sense 1b) shows the present word or a parallel formation < water n. + -ness suffix:c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 39 Superflue watrenes swette out fro þe place þat was wonte for to file many lynnen cloþes putte atwix.For further examples of waterness (in different senses) compare:?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 116 Boyle hem to-gedir with oyle of oliwe after þe qwantite of þe same herbis; and late hem ben boylyd soo longe ouer a softe fyir, tyll þe wyn and þe watirnesse of þe herbys been wastyd away.a1500 Dis. Women (Yale Med.) (1982) 47 Take clene stonys..and hete þem glowyng hote, þen quenche þem yn gotes mylke and þat schall consume þe waturnes of þe blode. †1. concrete. a. Watery liquid as a constituent of something. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > element or proportion in a material waterinessa1398 water content1848 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. lxv. 1329 Mylk..is þe bettre and more holsom if þe most dele of watrynesse [L. aquositas] is consumpt and ywasted. ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 394 (MED) When it is colede, þrowe oute þe watrynesse [L. aquositas] and stampe þe fattenesse smalle in a morter. 1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount i. vi. 104 The moisture or watrinesse [Fr. l'humidité, ou aquosité] of the saied Quick siluer distilleth out in a vapour. 1678 R. Russel tr. Jabir ibn Haiyan Wks. Geber ii. i. iv. v. 94 It is expedient to remove, from things to be sublimed, the Wateriness only, with a very small Fire. b. Abnormal watery liquid contained within the body or a part of the body. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [noun] > fluid secretion > watery fluid waterOE waterinessa1400 serosity1601 latex1650 sanies1661 serum1672 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 273 (MED) If hernia be watri..if þou pressist it wiþ þi fyngir, þou schalt fele watrynes þeron. ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 171 (MED) Oþer leches..done þe forsaide operacioun wiþ an actual cauterie..so þat þe watrynesse be drawen oute. 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ii. f. 48^v/2 Let y^e head be epithemed in the place wher the aquositie or watrines [L. aqua] is. 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke iii. xxxii. 122 For that meate that is lose and moist, is apt to be turned into watrines. 1651 P. Armin tr. F. Glisson et al. Treat. Rickets 313 It is a powerful remedy against the Hydrocephalus, both Curative and Preservative, and very much conduceth..to evacuate the superfluous watriness thereof. 2. a. The quality in food or drink of containing excess water, or of being thin, weak, or insipid. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [noun] > sloppy food > sloppy quality wateriness?c1425 ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 113 Causes ben an alteratyf vertue made colde and euel-disposed and malice and watrynesse of metes [L. ciborum malicia et aquositas]. 1650 tr. Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni (new ed.) 108 The first is, that they [sc. medlars] increase vrine: that is, by reason that they make the dregs hard, and so their waterines turns into much vrine. 1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry iii. xii. 415 The acidity and wateriness of the juice of the grapes. 1768 T. Wildman Treat. Managem. Bees iii. v. 103 The bees themselves would be in danger of being destroyed by the wateriness of the honey. 1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 243 They attempt to remedy the wateriness of the fish by exposing it spitted to a slow fire. 1870 R. Broughton Red as Rose I. iii. 37 What hero..can stand..the burning of his soup, or the wateriness of his potatoes? 1916 G. Bradshaw High School Cookery Bk. viii. 58 Wateriness of the custard is also due to over-cooking. 2001 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 8 Sept. 9 Saute the marrow in butter, which minimises its tendency to wateriness. b. figurative. The quality or condition of being weak, insipid, or vapid; lack of distinctness or precision. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] feebleness1533 washiness1631 wateriness1660 wheyishness1803 inexpressiveness1815 ineffectiveness1865 nullity1883 wishy-washiness1891 1660 W. Secker Nonsuch Professor 295 Jesus Christ doth not..overshadow a beleevers Sun because of the watriness of its shining. 1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 28 587 The general haziness and wateriness of all his disquisitions. 1872 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera II. xiv. 20 The simplicity—or, shall we say wateriness,—of the style. 1937 V. Loggins I Hear Amer. xiii. 339 To realize the wateriness of O. Henry's slang one has only to compare it with Ring Lardner's. 2008 N.Y. Sun (Nexis) 16 Jan. (Arts & Lett. section) 16 The wateriness of the Schubert was replaced with crystalline, lapidary Debussy. 3. The condition of blood containing excess water; spec. (in later use) the condition in which blood volume is increased due to increased water content of the plasma (= hydraemia n.). Now rare or disused.Also: †the water content of blood (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > thinness of blood wateriness?1543 fusion1710 hydrohaemia1840 hydraemia1845 ?1543 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe x. f. lviii^v Yf such fluxe..happen of the watrynes of bloode [Fr. la grande aquosite du sang], gyve her to drynke..honye of roses. 1687 tr. P. Barbette Thes. Chirurgiæ (ed. 4) xv. 54 The Water gathers either by some Lymphatick Vessels burst, or from an unconcocted watriness of the Blood. 1845 Northern Jrnl. Med. 2 173 The wateriness of the blood has been reduced below its healthy standard. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 18 Mere wateriness of blood..does not cause an increased flow of bile. 1905 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 23 Dec. 1649/1 Chlorosis..is due largely to the wateriness of the blood. 1930 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 26 Apr. 781/1 There is a considerable diminution in the plasma bicarbonate values in these waterlogged subjects,..which is probably not due to hydraemia or wateriness of the blood. 4. Watery state or condition of the eyes; watering of the eyes; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > excretions from eye > [noun] spadec725 tear971 goundc1000 wateriness?1550 eye-stream1591 eye-water1591 eye drop1600 guma1616 eye-brine1616 gowl1665 gore1741 teardrop1789 tearlet1858 sleep1922 sleeper1942 ?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. E.v The greene leaues of the Plane tree sodden in wyne & vsed as a plaister cure the Rewme and watrines of the eyes. 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xvii. 94 It..dryeth up the teares, and watrinesse of the eyes. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iii. 363 Weakness, Wateryness, and Turgidity of the Eyes. 1819 J. G. Lockhart Peter's Lett. to Kinsfolk III. lxiv. 128 His eyes are black as jet..but the dazzle of their brilliancy is softened by a melancholy wateriness. 1859 G. A. Sala Gaslight & Daylight ii. 17 A wateriness in the eye, and a huskiness in the throat. 1949 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 85 232/1 The first prodrome is a noticeable hypersensitivity to light..The next is a slight wateriness of the eyes. 2011 Sunday Times (Nexis) 7 Aug. (Home section) 18 I was/am so allergic to horses that I could hardly see, such was the wateriness of my eyes and extent of my wheezing. 5. gen. a. The state of being watery or of having an abundance of water; watery quality or nature. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > quality or state of being watery or like water aquosity1528 waterishness1532 aqueity1612 wateriness1624 1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 186 Meere Iuglers and Impostors, that..seeke to..maske with great wordes the naked watrinesse of their Baptisme. 1684 J. Strype tr. J. Lightfoot Horæ Hebraicæ in Wks. II. 501 The place for the very wateriness of it [L. ob aquositatem] deserves to be call'd Aenon, that is, a place of springs. 1843 Mrs. H. Wood Change for Amer. Notes i. 13 What a puny offspring would their Thames appear.., widening to a respectable wateriness only as it nears the sea. 1883 H. James Portraits of Places xx. 373 More here, even, than on the Canada shore, you perceive the unlimited wateriness of the whole spectacle. 1904 Elizabeth in Rügen iv. 95 German female tourists are apt to be extraordinarily cordial in the water.., and will behave towards you, meeting you on this common ground of wateriness, as though they had known you..for years. 2002 Afr. Arts 35 14 The extreme wateriness of the Niger Delta clearly creates boundaries and opportunities for its human inhabitants. †b. The state of being saturated with or submerged in water. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [noun] > with water wateriness1789 water soak1867 1789 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire I. 208-9 The low situation of this vale..and the wateriness of its soils, through a want of surface-draining,—conspire to render it..singularly fatal to sheep. 1820 L. Hunt Indicator 1 Mar. 164 The sudden missing Of one's dry senses,—the deaf plunge and bubbling, And wrapping up in heavy wateriness. 1834 Leigh Hunt's London Jrnl. 9 July 114/1 [The fly in a tea cup] then stops, and sinks down, saturated and overborne with wateriness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1398
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