dryness
n.the state of being very dry. It can describe a lack of water in the air or a lack of moisture in your skin.
n.the state or quality of being dry; a lack of moisture or humidity.
“The dryness of the air made my throat feel sore.”
“After spending the entire afternoon in the sun, the skin on her hands began to feel a painful dryness.”
“The sudden dryness of the desert climate forced the explorers to ration their water supplies more strictly than they had anticipated.”
“Still, “I battle throat scratchiness and nasal dryness even with these measures”, she said.”
“This summer is not expected to break any records for dryness across the UK as a whole.”
Inherited from Middle English dryenesse, drynesse; equivalent to dry + -ness.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.