Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being arid; dryness; want of moisture.
- noun Figuratively, want of interest; dryness; lifelessness.
- noun Dullness of mind or situation; depression; tedium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness.
- noun Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought.
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- noun A long term lack of
rainfall ormoisture .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall)
- noun the quality of yielding nothing of value
Etymologies
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Examples
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The region is considered to be an island of long-term aridity in a sea of climatic change.
Kaokoveld desert 2008
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We are already observing what appear to be trends towards increasing, long-term aridity in parts of the world.
RealClimate 2009
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Sometimes sloth takes on an acute form known as aridity or barrenness in all things that pertain to God.
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
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The aridity is a resource, however, in the matter of wool, the superior quality of which is due largely to the deficient rainfall.
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895
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Expenditures for purchasing fodder and the water supply for the animals receive more attention with increasing land-use intensity and dissemination of animal traction as well as aridity, meaning an increased load on family labour, especially the children.
Chapter 9 1991
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Commenting on your list of several lethalities, some might hear me say, in the face of all aridity ...
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Though it gave him a profound subject, one has to wonder how much the aridity of Mphahlele's native soil limited his ability to fulfill his artistic promise.
Chronicling a World Apart Martin Rubin 2011
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My idea of a desert is an eternal agony, plotted by the fury of the aridity, by the implacable confusion of a sun which, trampled by the wind, melts with the sand, until there is no other landscape than the sand dominating the sky, the ground, the wind.
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Good is set against evil; life against death; aridity, fecundity; forests, deserts; past, future.
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Good is set against evil; life against death; aridity, fecundity; forests, deserts; past, future.
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