SERENESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A withered dryness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("sereness" is a kind of...):

dryness; waterlessness; xerotes (the condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water))

Derivation:

sere ((used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture)

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