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aridity
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun aridity has 2 senses
- aridity(n = noun.attribute) barrenness, fruitlessness - the quality of yielding nothing of value; Array is a kind of quality
- aridity(n = noun.state) aridness, thirstiness - a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall); Array is a kind of dryness, waterlessness, xerotes
has particulars: poorness, unproductiveness
Derived form adjective arid1
CIDE DICTIONARY
aridity, n. [L. ariditas, fr. aridus.].
- The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. [1913 Webster]
- Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris. [1913 Webster]
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aridity
Dryness
N dryness, siccity, aridity, drought, ebb tide, low water, exsiccation, desiccation, arefaction, dephlegmation, drainage, drier, desiccative, dessicator, dessicator, hair drier, clothes drier, gas drier, electric drier, vacuum oven, drying oven, kiln, lyophilizer, clothesline, dry, anhydrous, arid, adust, arescent, dried, undamped, juiceless, sapless, sear, husky, rainless, without rain, fine, dry as a bone, dry as dust, dry as a stick, dry as a mummy, dry as a biscuit, water proof, water tight, dehydrated, dessicated.
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