The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parchedness
Parchedness \Parch"ed*ness\, n. The state of being parched.
Wiktionary
parchedness
n. The state or quality of being parched.
Usage examples of "parchedness".
Wells prattled all the while, about the parchedness of Mars and how intensely interested the Martians must be in the phenomenon of water falling from the skies.
You know what sickness is in us and what kind of parchedness has brought it about.
I stood there, shaky in my knees, with that parchedness in the roof of my mouth.