rainlessness

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Two months of rainlessness had withered 29% or 817,000,000 bu. of the corn crop, a cash loss of about $775,000,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

The time, too, was unfortunate, after no rain for weeks; for rainlessness, besides doubling the native stock of dust, brings out to the full the ancestral Etruscan odors of Perugia.

From The Woman Who Did by Allen, Grant

I think this is more likely to be the truth: Old-fashioned gardens used low plant densities to survive inevitable spells of rainlessness.

From Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway by Solomon, Steve

The summer has been wondrous again in these islands—four or five months, from April 1st, of almost merciless fine weather—a rainlessness absolute and without precedent.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry