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aridity
[ uh-rid-i-tee ]
noun
- the state or quality of being extremely dry:
Many plant and animal adaptations to withstand the intense aridity of the desert are quite bizarre.
- the quality of lacking interest, liveliness, or imaginativeness; sterility:
His writing style is excellent, avoiding the technical aridity of most professional science publications.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of aridity1
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Example Sentences
A second climatic change, perhaps even more important than the lowering temperature, was the increase of aridity.
At Anau there are signs that the desertion was due primarily to aridity or to disturbances accompanying such a change.
The neighbouring zone of Kaffraria consists of great far-spreading, gently-undulating plains, characterized by extreme aridity.
It is designed to show the air of aridity which the mere coast line presents.
From the crowding vegetation of a tropical marsh to the most absolute aridity was but a step.
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