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a feeling your skin invents, since water itself has no texture to detect
means the state or quality of being covered or soaked with liquid, especially water.
from From "wet," a word with deep Germanic roots — Old English "wæt," kin to Old Norse "vátr," and ultimately tied to the same ancient family that gives us "water." The "-ness" is the trusty old English suffix that turns a quality into a thing you can name, the same one quietly working in "darkness" and "kindness."
- no receptors
- humans lack any dedicated wetness sensor
- the trick
- brain fakes it from cold plus pressure
- fooled easily
- cold dry metal can feel wet
- insect edge
- some bugs have actual moisture-sensing hairs
- water itself
- not wet alone, only makes things wet
monsoon season in india — brings 2,000-10,000mm of annual rainfall to the subcontinent june-september
lake baikal siberia — deepest freshwater lake on earth at 1,642 meters, contains 23% of world's surface freshwater
amazon rainforest basin — receives 2,300mm+ annual rainfall across 5.5 million square kilometers in south america