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Definition of Aridity
1. Noun. The quality of yielding nothing of value.
Generic synonyms: Quality
Specialized synonyms: Poorness, Unproductiveness
Derivative terms: Barren, Fruitless
Antonyms: Fruitfulness
2. Noun. A deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall).
Generic synonyms: Dryness, Waterlessness, Xerotes
Derivative terms: Arid, Arid, Thirsty
Definition of Aridity
1. n. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness.
Definition of Aridity
1. Noun. A long term lack of rainfall or moisture. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aridity
1. the state of being arid [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aridity
Literary usage of Aridity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Conquest of Arid America by William Ellsworth Smythe (1900)
"In the aridity of the West we shall find the true key to its future institutions.
Climate may produce a healthy race, and mineral resources may enrich it, ..."
2. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"Since linear regression model was to be used, dendrochronology and aridity series
were first tested for normality and the significantly deviates values from ..."
3. Essays on the Progress of Nations, in Civilization, Productive Industry by Ezra Champion Seaman (1868)
"The extreme aridity of a country, and its subjection to extreme droughts. ...
Sahara is rendered a desert by its aridity. Give it sixty inches of rain ..."
4. Water Supply of South Africa and Facilities for the Storage of it by John Croumbie Brown (1877)
"... and of causes of its present aridity, with suggestions of appropriate remedies
for this aridity,"* I have, in treating of the former hydrographic ..."
5. The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose (1920)
"Lophocereus schottii inhabits parts of western Mexico and southern Arizona, which
have great aridity, but it usually grows in colonies and in this way seems ..."
6. Pamphleteer by Abraham John Valpy (1826)
"In such houses, even those species of wood, which, under the usual changes from
aridity to moisture, and again from moisture to heat, run most rapidly to ..."
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