ARIDITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aridity mean? 

• ARIDITY (noun)
  The noun ARIDITY has 2 senses:

1. the quality of yielding nothing of value

2. a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall)

  Familiarity information: ARIDITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARIDITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of yielding nothing of value

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

aridity; barrenness; fruitlessness

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

aridity; aridness; thirstiness

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)