The Oxford dictionary defines 'wet' as ['covered or saturated in another liquid'](https://languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en/). By this definition water itself cannot be wet as its molecules are already bound, therefore not wetting one and other. While water can make other things wet, it is not itself a wet substance. People often come to the conclusion that because water makes things wet it is wet itself, this is untrue as not everything's function is its identity. This is an example of a logical fallacy many people have come to believe about water.

Water is wet, even by the definition that wet is 'covered or saturated with water or another liquid'. Water is composed of individual oxygen and hydrogen atoms which surround and touch eachother - meaning that water is always surrounded by more water. By this logic, water matches the definition of being wet: water covers more water, therefore [making the latter water wet.](https://tamuceasttexan.com/4531/opinion/no-question-water-is-wet/)

There are [multiple perspectives](https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-1725,00.html) to acknowledge and ways to argue that water is, indeed, not wet. It technically can’t be defined as wet because wetness is named through a sensation. Writer Jacqueline Castles said, “Water isn’t wet. Wetness is a description of our experience of water; what happens to us when we come into contact with water in such a way that it impinges on our state of being. We, or our possessions, ‘get wet’.” This is a great example of the general experience of wetness with a reference to the semantics of the word. Writers Chris and Shevvy Ould said, “Have you ever noticed that you can't feel wetness if you hold your hand perfectly still while it is submerged, or that a drop of water on the skin doesn't feel wet?” Writer Ewan Sweeney from a post on [debate.org](https://www.debate.org/opinions/is-water-wet) said, “The reason it feels as it feels when water touches the skin is actually a complex electro-chemical reaction which works at amazing speeds. The sensory inputs are a combination of your body’s pH at that moment, the water’s pH, your body’s temperature at that moment, the water’s temperature, the atmospheric pressure, and molecular polarity.”