aridness

ar·id

 (ăr′ĭd)
adj.
1. Lacking moisture, especially having insufficient rainfall to support trees or woody plants: an arid climate.
2. Lacking interest or feeling; lifeless and dull: a technically perfect but arid musical performance.

[Latin āridus, from ārēre, to be dry; see as- in Indo-European roots.]

a·rid′i·ty (ə-rĭd′ĭ-tē), ar′id·ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.aridness - a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall)aridness - a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall)
dryness, waterlessness, xerotes - the condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water)
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Translations
جَفاف، قُحولَه
suchostvyprahlost
tørhedufrugtbarhed
Dürre
aridez
aridité
òurrleiki
siccità
vyprahnutosť
çoraklıkkuraklık
干旱

arid

(ˈӕrid) adjective
dry. The soil is rather arid.
aˈridity noun
ˈaridness noun
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span xml:lang="EN-GBNobody is inside our houses in block B because it is too hot now the weather is wearing an abnormal aridness and the yellow fire-sun has suckled the coolness out of the air and left a waterlessness that cracks lips and feet.span xml:lang="EN-GBThe landlady, Mama Amu, has been cheating-promising to put ceiling boards to reduce the heat.
(19) He goes on to describe countless exotic things, in a place where "tutto era oblio" ("all was oblivion"), a hallucinatory mixture of aridness and the color white: the white stones of Arab cemeteries, and the swarms of boats in the Nile with their sails that were white like snowflakes.
6) sheer aridness of soul, total exhaustion and exclusion of all positive emotions, such as love and affection;
Rather than being a symbol of darkness, solitariness, and aridness, the Arab desert is pictured as a populated place, one alive with its people and vegetation (e.g., "date palms").
Travelling across Texas, surveying the damage, it's often difficult to discern what portion of the disaster can be attributed to the double-barrel blow of a relentless sun and persistent aridness and what can be attributed to humans' dissociation from nature.
What is significant about Vadra's land dealings in Bikaner is that he was among the first to buy property there when Bikaner's Gajner town of Kolayat tehsil was hardly seen as an investment destination because of its aridness and lack of infrastructure.
Additional sources offering outstanding accounts of different aspects of the history of the Law of the River and the Colorado River Basin include: WILLIAM DEBUYS, A GREAT ARIDNESS: CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST 139-41, 165-72 (2011) (examining the history and litigation surrounding Arizona's allocation of the Colorado River); PHILIP L.
It has also reduced environmental degradation and aridness of the land through nurturing the land via tourism,' added Sonu.
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