A deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall)
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Examples for "dryness "
1 RI: Windburn and itchy skin result from surface dryness of the skin.
2 A great dryness of the salt consumes the substance of the egg.
3 The hot air quickly affects the palate and causes an artificial dryness .
4 During these variations of the zodiacal light, the hygrometer indicated considerable dryness .
5 Press your way through to God in spite of dryness and deadness.
1 We had an uncomfortable experience because of the excessive heat and aridity .
2 Even in the aridity of a chronicle the accusation and rejoinder are dramatic.
3 Nothing strikes the imagination more than the absolute aridity of the region now.
4 The aridity of the hills of Sérignan is unfavourable to them.
5 The aridity of her background emphasises the paradoxical claustrophobia of large, well-appointed spaces.
1 I felt immediately a fit of blood - thirstiness creep over me.
2 Even nowadays, though, the thirstiness of mankind is something supernatural.
3 Then his brain flamed with the sole horror of thirstiness !
4 Every year you are bombing this or that nation, because of your thirstiness for blood.
5 It ain't anything but air and heat and thirstiness pasted together by a person's imagination.
1 But I felt a great aridness within me, and the sources of grace seemed closed against me.
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