Is water wet or does it make things wet?

[Cornchipuniverse]

The last time I made this post there was a typo that made it too hard to understand. Explain your reasoning.

[N23SA]

I hate this question 😂
Water is wet. When something is wet, its because it is saturated with water. So if water makes something wet because it has water, then water = wet. Water is wet, because wet itself is water. Water and wet are the same thing.
at least that's the way I make sense of it.

[mjsbiggestfan1997]

Water makes things wet. The definition of wet is "covered or saturated with water or another liquid". Water can't be saturated with itself, therefore water isn't wet.

[jack187625]

But water is constantly covered in more water (if you have more than one particle). Therefore it must be wet.

[mjsbiggestfan1997]

This makes my head hurt lmao 😂😂😂

[jack187625]

Haha, it's the same logic you used, just with a different part of the sentence;)

[Huver85]

It all depends how you define wet... 2 out of 3 its wet.
To answer this question, we need to define the term "wet." If we define "wet" as the condition of a liquid sticking to a solid surface, such as water wetting our skin, then we cannot say that water is wet by itself, because it takes a liquid AND a solid to define the term "wet."

If we define "wet" as a sensation that we get when a liquid comes in contact with us, then yes, water is wet to us.

If we define "wet" as "made of liquid or moisture", then water is definitely wet because it is made of liquid, and in this sense, all liquids are wet because they are all made of liquids. I think that this is a case of a word being useful only in appropriate contexts.

[xxNDMxx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugyqOSUlR2A

[Huver85]

Water also soaks into things also makin gthem wet so Water is wet!

[Whatthefluff]

It is wet