The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aridity \A*rid"i*ty\, n.; pl. Aridities. [L. ariditas, fr. aridus.]
The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness.
Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought.
--Norris.
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n. (plural of aridity English)
Usage examples of "aridities".
I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils and haricots--those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certificated aridities calling themselves human food!
The woods, the open stretches of heather and yellow gorse, the clumps of Scotch firs, the shining ponds with their overhanging birch trees, their water lilies, their beds of rushes–these were beautiful and, to an eye accustomed to the aridities of the American desert, astonishing.
Some of the book's aridities may be an attempt to create a reflection of despair, but the zestlessness does sometimes read like a failure of professional sincerity, or nerve.