Dryness

The state of being dry. See Dry.

noun

1. A lack of excitement, liveliness, or interest: asepticism, blandness, colorlessness, drabness, dreariness, dullness, flatness, flavorlessness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, lifelessness, sterileness, sterility, stodginess, vapidity, vapidness, weariness. See excite/bore/interest.
2. The practice of refraining from use of alcoholic liquors: abstinence, soberness, sobriety, teetotalism, temperance. See drugs/temperance, restraint/unrestraint, used/unused.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: the condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water)
  Synonyms: waterlessness, xerotes
  Antonym: wetness (meaning #1)

For other uses, see dry.

Dryness is a property of alcoholic beverages that describes the lack of a sweet taste. This may be due to a lack of sugars, the presence of some other taste that masks sweetness, or an underabundance of simple carbohydrates that can be converted to sugar by enzymes in the mouth (amylase in particular). The term "dry" may be applied to types of beer, wine, distilled spirits, or any other form of alcoholic beverage.

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