dryness

Other forms of dryness

plural

drynesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dryness

What does dryness mean?

dryness means "the condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dryness?

dryness has 2 syllables: dry-ness. The stress falls on "dry". In IPA it is /ˈdɹaɪnəs/.

What is another word for dryness?

Close synonyms include waterlessness, xerotes, sobriety, dispassion, dispassionateness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of dryness?

The recorded antonyms are wetness.

Is dryness a common word?

dryness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.