Interesting thoughts

Is water wet?

The definition of 'wet' is the state of being covered with or saturated by water or another liquid
It depends mainly on what type of water you are considering.

Let's first take H2O, distilled water. It has no or very little pollutants whatsoever. This water can't be wet, as it is itself is the wet medium needed to make other objects wet.

Let's say you pour water on water. A wet medium is now touching another wet medium of the same kind, so I believe they will just merge together to form more water.

But what if you pour oil on water? Now you have a wet medium on a different wet medium. In this case, the liquids do not merge together, hence it is considered wet. The same goes for a liquid that can dissolve in water, it does not merge to form more water, hence that water can be considered wet. In conclusion, H2O is not wet on it's own, but only when a foreign liquid is mixed with it.

Now let's consider the water to be water that is contaminated with a certain substance. There are 2 types, a solution (we will take the solute to be a solid for simplicity) and hydrophobic water.

For a solution, NaCl (aq) will be taken as water. So in this case, since this water is in a way polluted by other substances. However, the other substance is a solid in this case, so it cannot be considered wet. The same goes for a gas solute, but a liquid solute will have similar results as talked about previously.

Now for hydrophobic water. For now, ignore the term hydrophobic, just take it as silica infused water. From my explaination above, this water is contaminated, but not wet. Now let's add in the term hydrophobic, which means to repel water, or not mix with it. In this case, this hydrophobic water itself is not wet, but it can cause water to be wet and vice versa, depending on distance. Similar to water and oil, hydrophobic water can make a substance wet if it is in contact with it. Because hydrophobic repulsion does not work like a magnet, it can touch other water, it just will not mix.

But what if you mix 2 separate bottles of hydrophobic water? This has proven not to mix, so yes, hydrophobic water can still get wet with water.

So my point still stands, water is not wet.

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Resources : Action Lab hydrophobic water videos, Googled definitions

This is just my arguement, if you want to rebutt respectfully please go ahead in the comments.