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Noun: wateriness  wo-tu-ree-nus
  1. The wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water
    "the baseball game was cancelled because of the wateriness of the outfield";
    - muddiness, sloppiness
     
  2. Meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food)
    "the haziness and wateriness of his disquisitions"; "the wateriness of his blood"; "no one enjoys the burning of his soup or the wateriness of his potatoes"
     
  3. The property of resembling the viscosity of water

Type of: exiguity, leanness, meagerness [N. Amer], meagreness [Brit, Cdn], poorness, scantiness, scantness, thinness, wetness