Here is an easier question, yet I’m hoping will create just as equal a flame war. Is water wet?

I’m hoping old yeller gives a nice answer. Imo water is wet is because it is not dry. Water is in a state of wetness, therefore anything it touches becomes wet :D

Wet: covered or saturated with water or another liquid.

I believe water is saturated with water.

Water is not wet.

water is in 2 of 3 aggregate states not wet

The definition of wet appears to require an object to come into contact with water in order to become wet. Water itself is simply water.

But i'll have to agree with καλλιστηι here, that water is in fact always touching other water (unless its a single molecule).

If Chuck Norris come in contact with water he will never be wet but the water becomes Chuckish.

Molecules don't touch each other. Fight me.

I think wet only has meaning as a word when it can be compared to not-wet. If something can't be not-wet, then it makes no sense to call it wet.
That applies to most adjectives. A tall giraffe only makes sense compared to short giraffes. You only call the sun bright to compare it to days when the sun is less bright. Saying "the green grass" implies other grass is less green. Etc.

And similarly, calling water wet only makes sense if other water is less wet.

So I think that is the easier question to ask: can water be dry?
Because if the answer is no, then water can't be wet, either.

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Water in its solid state (a.k.a. ice) is not wet, so its reasonable to assume liquid water is wet then.

Ice is slippery wouldn’t that mean it’s wet? Or is it solid and there is just a thin layer of wet on top, separate from the ice

if Ice can be dry, why not water?

Dry ice is not water tho

There is such a thing as dried ice, I think it can only happen in a controlled environment where there is no atmosphere or something, where the ice has no water on top but the ice is still slippery

Technically if water flows through it then it's water

I meant liquid on top*

Why are you gays still active

Rikku honey, you’re literally gayer than all of us, maybe combined

I will never recover from this xd