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Noun dryness has 3 senses

• dryness(n = noun.state) waterlessness, xerotes - the condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water); Array
is a kind of condition, status
has particulars: dehydration, desiccation, drought, drouth, aridity, aridness, thirstiness, sereness, conjunctivitis arida, xeroma, xerophthalmia, xerophthalmus, dry mouth, xerostomia
Derived forms adjective dry₇, adjective dry₈, adjective dry₁, adjective dry₅, adjective dry₃
Antonym: wetness

• dryness(n = noun.attribute) sobriety - moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs; Array
is a kind of moderation, temperance
Derived form adjective dry₁₆

• dryness(n = noun.attribute) dispassion, dispassionateness - objectivity and detachment; "her manner assumed a dispassion and dryness very unlike her usual tone"
is a kind of emotionlessness, unemotionality
Derived forms adjective dry₁₅, adjective dry₂

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dryness

acerbity, acescency, acidity, acidulousness, appetite, aridity, aridness, barrenness, birth control, bloodlessness, cacophony, canine appetite, characterlessness, coarseness, colorlessness, contraception, cracked voice, deadness, dearth, dearth of ideas, discord, dismalness, dragginess, dreariness, drought, dry womb, dullness, dustiness, effeteness, emptiness, empty stomach, etiolation, family planning, famine, flatness, greenness, gruffness, gutturalism, gutturality, gutturalness, harshness, heaviness, hoarseness, hollow hunger, hollowness, hunger, hungriness, huskiness, hyperacidity, impotence, inanity, ineffectualness, inexcitability, infecundity, infertility, insipidity, insipidness, jejunity, leadenness, lifelessness, lowness of spirit, paleness, pallor, planned parenthood, pointlessness, pokiness, polydipsia, ponderousness, prosaicism, prosaicness, prosaism, prosiness, pungency, raspiness, raucity, relish, roughness, rudeness, scrapiness, scratchiness, slowness, solemnity, sour, sourishness, sourness, spiritlessness, staidness, sterileness, sterility, stertorousness, stiffness, stodginess, stolidity, stomach, stuffiness, subacidity, superficiality, sweet tooth, tapeworm, tartishness, tartness, taste, tastelessness, tediousness, thickness, thirst, thirstiness, throatiness, torment of Tantalus, ugliness, uncreativeness, unfancifulness, unfertileness, unfruitfulness, unimaginativeness, uninterestingness, unliveliness, unoriginality, unpoeticalness, unproductiveness, unripeness, unsweetness, vapidity, vapidness, verjuice, vinegariness, vinegarishness, withered loins, woodenness

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Dryness

N dryness, siccity, aridity, drought, ebb tide, low water, exsiccation, desiccation, arefaction, dephlegmation, drainage, drier, desiccative, dessicator, dessicator, hair drier, clothes drier, gas drier, electric drier, vacuum oven, drying oven, kiln, lyophilizer, clothesline, dry, anhydrous, arid, adust, arescent, dried, undamped, juiceless, sapless, sear, husky, rainless, without rain, fine, dry as a bone, dry as dust, dry as a stick, dry as a mummy, dry as a biscuit, water proof, water tight, dehydrated, dessicated.

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