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Ahh okay, I think I get what you're getting at. It's like how if you dry off after a shower, your towel is damp and not wet because you're just looking at saturation.
I'd be surprised if other languages call the air "wet" because that's an English word. In Chinese, we'd call humidity 湿度 which means "degree of wet".
Yep, you put it better than I did! Even if the air is fully humid, you're still not wet, as there won't be liquid water on you. Once there's enough to actually form liquid water, you'll be wet.
Fair point, I didn't know about Chinese. I was talking about other languages I know, none of which refer to humidity as wetness (in the respective language obviously), they all use separate words.
So then why isn't water wet if there is clearly liquid water touching liquid water?
While I agree that water is wet in general, I don't think this is a complete question. It's somewhat difficult to answer because I don't know what the person asking's expectations are.
Water is wet if we're talking about how it feels to interact with and how it will make us wet too.
Water isn't wet if we're talking about things which are supposed to be dry but aren't, like when surveying the damage after a spill.
I don't mean to butt in if the two of you are just having fun, but this Vsauce video on the philosophy of definitions might help sort through some of the more confusing feelings.