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driness

noun

Etymology

From dry + -ness.

  1. derived from *dʰerǵʰ-✻ — “strong, hard, solid”
  2. inherited from *drūgiz✻ — “hard, desiccated, dry”
  3. inherited from *drūgijan✻
  4. inherited from drȳġan — “to dry”
  5. inherited from drien
  6. derived from *dʰerǵʰ-✻ — “to strengthen; become hard”
  7. inherited from *drūgiz✻
  8. inherited from *drūgī✻
  9. inherited from drȳġe — “dry; parched, withered”
  10. inherited from drye
  11. suffixed as driness — “dry + ness”

Definitions

  1. Archaic form of dryness.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA