Is water wet?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is water wet?". Your opponent's style: Devil's advocate

of course water is wet.

You're confusing the object with the property. Water isn't wet, it makes things wet. Wetness requires a surface that absorbs or clings to liquid, creating friction and adhesion. Water molecules sliding past each other feel nothing. A single water molecule can't be wet by definition, so how does a collection of them become wet just by existing together? You've committed a category error, claiming water possesses a quality that only emerges when water interacts with something else. Wetness is relational, not intrinsic. Until water touches a surface, it's just liquid. Can you name a property water has without referencing something external?