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What (who) is aridity - definition
SEVERE LACK OF AVAILABLE WATER
Aridity; Arid region; Aridness; Hyper-arid; Dry climate; Dry weather; Arid land
aridity
n.
1.
Dryness, aridness, parchedness, siccity, want of moisture, sterility, barrenness, unfertility.
2.
Dryness, want of interest, dulness, pointlessness, jejuneness, unsuggestiveness, barrenness, infecundity, sterility.
3.
Dulness, insensibility, indifference, torpidity.
Aridity
·noun The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness.
II. Aridity ·noun Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought.
aridness
n.
See aridity.
Wikipedia
Arid
A region is arid when it severely lacks available water, to the extent of hindering or preventing the growth and development of plant and animal life. Regions with arid climates tend to lack vegetation and are called xeric or desertic. Most arid climates straddle the Equator; these regions include parts of Africa, Asia, South America, North America, and Australia.
Examples of use of aridity
1. Despite the great aridity, there were nonetheless abundant seasonal pools of water in the winter.
2. Animals and plants have evolved mechanisms that enable them to survive despite the searing heat and aridity, and studying samples in labs is expected to yield their secrets.
3. Article continues "We can certainly say that the earliest civilisations arose on the backdrop of increasing aridity, which are driven by natural, global–scale changes in climate," said Nick Brooks of the University of East Anglia.
4. "We find similar evidence for increasing aridity ... and the emergence of urban centres where people have been forced to congregate by a drying environment." Dr Brooks said that the emergence of society was not a universally positive development.