Water clearly is not wet, as proven by whenever your hand is within water, do you feel that it is wet? No. When you take your hand OUT of the water, it is not considered wet as the moisture of the water has latched onto your hand. While in the water, the moisture on your hand is free to move off.

You can also compare it to a (fairly) similar question: is uranium radioactive, or is it the particles? That you cannot tell as easily as uranium constantly emits the particles. Similar to the way water is on your hand. Under the layer of water, where it meets the skin, that part is wet. But due to the layer of water covering that “line”, you cannot really answer the question of “is water wet” as there is too little of a space to tell.

As by google’s 2 of 4 definitions:

“adjective

1. ⁠covered or saturated with water or another liquid. ‘she followed, slipping on the wet rock’” Or

noun

1. ⁠liquid that makes something damp. “I could feel the wet of his tears”

So by looking at those 2 definitions google supports both arguments, “covered or saturated with water or another liquid.” Would say, no water is not wet, but what it touched becomes wet due to its properties. However the second definition “liquid that makes something damp.” Would support that water is, in fact, wet due to water being a liquid. But however, lava can be considered a liquid as, by definition, it is molten rock something that is molten is typically a liquid such as molten aluminum, molten steel, etc. But are those molten liquids damp? No. In fact, the complete opposite, but it still makes thing slightly damp. As through the melting process, it may vaporize any moisture, theoretically making it a damp liquid as by definition, it makes this damp.