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That boost I just bumped of the water droplets on a leaf reminds me of a technical word pair people often get wrong.
The words describe materials or surfaces that either repel water or absorb moisture and they are respectively hydrophobic and hygroscopic. The mistake you see a lot is "hydroscopic" which isn't a proper technical term.
The difference is that the latter refers to absorbing moisture, not water, and uses a Greek root to say that.