aridness

What does aridness mean?

aridness means "a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall)".

How many syllables are in aridness?

aridness has 3 syllables and divides as a-rid-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for aridness?

Close synonyms include aridity, 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 aridness a common word?

aridness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for aridness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.