aridity

Other forms of aridity

plural

aridities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aridity

What does aridity mean?

aridity means "the quality of yielding nothing of value". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in aridity?

aridity has 4 syllables: a-ri-di-ty. The stress falls on "ri".

What is another word for aridity?

Close synonyms include fruitlessness, barrenness, aridness, thirstiness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aridity a common word?

aridity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.