Another word for dryness
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Noun
A lack of excitement, liveliness, or interest
- the condition or quality of being weary; fatigue or tedium
- something that causes fatigue or tedium
- the state or quality of being vapid; flatness; dullness; insipidity
- a dull or uninteresting remark, idea, etc.
- The state or quality of being stodgy.
- The state or quality of being sterile.
- The state or condition of being sterile.
- The property of being lifeless, the lack of apparent animation.
- The state or condition of being jejune.
- A lack of distinctive, appealing, or energetic character; tastelessness; extreme blandness.
- (uncountable) The condition of being insipid; insipidness.
- (countable) An insipid utterance.
- The state or condition of being flavorless; lack of flavor.
- The quality of being slow to understand things.
- The quality of being uninteresting.
- The lack of visual brilliance.
- The characteristic of being dreary.
- The characteristic of being drab.
- the state of being colorless
- The state, quality, or characteristic of being bland.
See also:The practice of refraining from use of alcoholic liquors
- Abstinence from or moderation in drinking alcoholic beverages.
- Moderation and self-restraint, as in behavior or expression.
- the principle or practice of never drinking any alcoholic liquor
- The state or condition of being sober:
- The state or quality of being sober.
- The act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite or desire, especially for alcoholic drink or sexual intercourse.
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Another word for dryness
Noun
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- The state or quality of being parched.
- The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture.
- (uncountable) The state or process of being desiccated
- An act or occurrence of desiccating
- The process of removing water from a substance or compound.
- Excessive loss of water from the body or from an organ or body part, as from illness or fluid deprivation.
- A long period of abnormally low rainfall, especially one that adversely affects growing or living conditions.
- A prolonged dearth or shortage.
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