Meaning & use
aridity
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The quality of being extremely dry, especially referring to climate or land with little rainfall.
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The region's aridity makes farming without irrigation nearly impossible.
Years of aridity turned the once-fertile valley into near desert.
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Can also be used figuratively to describe something emotionally or intellectually dry, as in "the aridity of the lecture."
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