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Quality or state of being wet: wateriness.

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  • We can do all sorts of things with water and still keep its aquosity.
  • As Huxley points out, it is no more justifiable to postulate the existence of a vitalistic principle in protoplasm than it would be to set up an "aquosity" to account...
  • I fail to see any analogy between aquosity and that condition of matter we call vital or living.
  • There is more wit than science in Huxley's question, "What better philosophical status has vitality than aquosity?"
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