aridity
A long-term lack of rainfall or moistureA long-term lack of rainfall or moisture.
» Rain is more desirable than aridity.
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1 senses(countable, uncountable)A long-term lack of rainfall or moisture.
Aridität, Trockenheit, Dürre
a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall)
Examples
2 sentencesRain is more desirable than aridity.
Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
Translations
3 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
Borrowed from Latin āriditās (“dryness”); equivalent to arid + -ity.Borrowed from Latin āriditās (“dryness”); equivalent to arid + -ity.
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Forms
plural: ariditiesSynonyms
4 synonyms- a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall):aridnessthirstiness
- the quality of yielding nothing of value:fruitlessnessbarrenness
Word family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.