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SERENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sereness mean?
• SERENESS (noun)
The noun SERENESS has 1 sense:
1. a withered dryness
Familiarity information: SERENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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