dryness

dryness
    n 1: the condition of not containing or being covered by a
         liquid (especially water) [syn: {dryness}, {waterlessness},
         {xerotes}] [ant: {wetness}]
    2: moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs [syn:
       {sobriety}, {dryness}]
    3: objectivity and detachment; "her manner assumed a dispassion
       and dryness very unlike her usual tone" [syn: {dispassion},
       {dispassionateness}, {dryness}]
    

Dryness \Dry"ness\, n.
   The state of being dry. See {Dry}.
   [1913 Webster]
    

129 Moby Thesaurus words for "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