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ARIDITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of yielding nothing of value
Synonyms:
aridity; barrenness; fruitlessness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("aridity" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aridity"):
poorness (less than adequate)
unproductiveness (the quality of lacking the power to produce)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall)
Synonyms:
aridity; aridness; thirstiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("aridity" is a kind of...):
dryness; waterlessness; xerotes (the condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water))
Derivation:
arid (lacking sufficient water or rainfall)
