Synonyms:
dryness, waterlessness, xerotes
Meaning: the condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water)
Usage examples
"Ah!" said Isabel with a certain dryness.
His heart began to pound, and he swallowed to relieve the dryness in his throat.
At first I thought they seemed small, but a stiffness due to cold and dryness misled me--a little stretching and all was well.
'I have never named it to either my brother or your cousin,' said Mr. Lennox, with a little professional dryness of implied reproach.
I ventured to remind the good man of my own business also; whereupon, with an expression of, if anything, increased dryness, he again asked me to wait.
Cutting himself a piece of bread and cheese, lamenting at its dryness, and eating it as he went along, he proceeded out again, locking up his lodge as before.
The most potent means of avoiding extreme dryness is to place a single-loaf bread-pan half full of water in the lower part of the piano, taking out the lower panel and placing it on either side of the pedals inside.
I want his directions no more than his drugs." He paused, and growing cooler in a moment, added, with only sarcastic dryness, "If Mr. Perry can tell me how to convey a wife and five children a distance of a hundred and thirty miles with no greater expense or inconvenience than a distance of forty, I should be as willing to prefer Cromer to South End as he could himself."