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dryness /ˈdrʌɪnəs /noun [mass noun]1Absence or lack of moisture or liquid: dryness of the mouth may occur while you are taking this medicine hand sanitizers contain ingredients that help prevent skin dryness...- Some people put a dab of petroleum jelly in the nose at night to combat dryness.
- Talk to your doctor about using special eyedrops to relieve dryness.
- Back in the kitchen I sipped my apple juice, quenching the dryness of my throat.
1.1Lack or absence of rainfall or humidity: the searing heat and dryness of the Sahara the sea retreated in periods of prolonged dryness...- Pockets of mild dryness continue across extreme southwest Nebraska, as well as the northwestern Panhandle.
- What is really needed now is a sustained period of dryness to alleviate future flood potential, as well as firm up soils for farm machinery.
- Man, too, learned how to live in the desert, surviving in spite of the extreme dryness and heat.
2Lack of interest, excitement, or embellishment; dullness: readers are repelled by the dryness of much of the matter it does little to rescue the ordinary moment from dryness and tedium...- The counterpoint becomes increasingly intricate as the set progresses, but Frescobaldi never lets the music devolve into academic dryness.
- McCreesh's scholarship is not in doubt, yet the performance bears no traces of dryness or unwonted caution.
- This book is also highly readable and avoids dryness, despite its scholarly approach - a most enjoyable and thought provoking read.
2.1The quality of being unemotional, undemonstrative, or impassive: the dryness of his delivery a certain dryness of style...- "Thank you for telling me what you really think, Jake," she said, not without a hint of dryness.
- Overall, the book is remarkably readable, partly because the editors have wisely allowed a certain quirky dryness of tone to creep in.
- His books have none of the Gallic virtues of irony, juridical dryness and clarity of prose.
3The quality in an alcoholic drink of not being sweet: there’s a lovely dryness to this straw-coloured wine...- For starters, sake comes in varying degrees of dryness and sweetness.
- Riesling's customary aroma and flavor of peaches and apricots come and go in a lively interplay of sweetness and dryness.
- The Alsace growers ferment their wines to complete dryness.
Rhymes flyness, shyness, slyness, wryness |