ness vs dry land

ness and dry land both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ness	Yes	No	No	No
dry land	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dry land is a hypernym of ness; that is, dry land is a word with a broader meaning than ness:

Other hypernyms of ness include earth, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma.

ness (noun)	dry land (noun)
a strip of land projecting into a body of water	the solid part of the earth's surface