wateriness

From Middle English watrynesse, equivalent to watery +‎ -ness.

wateriness (usually uncountable, plural waterinesses)

1. The state of being watery.
   • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 164:

     In fact, there was such an obvious inclination to wateriness about his eye, and instability about his underlip, that Cripps found it necessary to put the conversation on a less emotional basis.

• earwitness