If water itself is the very thing that makes other things wet, can it be wet? If you add water to something, you make it wet by definition. If then you add water to water have you made it wetter? I argue that water is not wet because of this reason. Is dirt dirty?
glenn123
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I think it can't be wet. Wet, to me, is a change from the norm....like dry. But water can't be dry...so I think it can't be wet either.
rsnvas
You must think about the use of the term "wet"here wet means watery so water is completely wet just like dirt is completely dirty. partial water is often treated as wet and full water is never called as wet but called as water.
zealot144
Liquids are wet, including water, gasoline, vegetable oil, alcohol, etc. You might argue that some liquids are not wet, like mercury.
"wetness", or to "get wet" indicates an infusion of one liquid or another, as "the driller was soaking wet when the oil that burst from the well", or "the chemist felt a wetness on his trousers where he had spilled glycerin".
To be wet is to be liquid, not just with water.
Anonymous
The skin feels temperature and pressure. The wetness feeling is simply a feeling of temperature and pressure - cold (unless you like to scald you hands) and high respectively. That is why you can put on latex gloves and stick your hands in a sink of water to make them feel wet.
Anonymous
Water feels wet because of the hydrogen bonds it forms with hydrophilic substances. If you are oily, water will not feel wet to you because oils are hydrophobic and do not form hydrogen bonds with water. So wetness is determined by the nature of water and what other substance it is next to.