单词 | aridity |
释义 | aridityn. 1. Arid state or quality, parched or withered condition, lack of moisture, dryness, barrenness; spec. in early medical use, of the state of the body. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [noun] > withering blasting1597 aridity1599 witheringa1631 the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > aridity or lack of moisture droughta1100 dryness1398 drytha1533 squalora1637 aritude1656 aridness1731 aridity1796 the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] > barren land or desert > condition of barrennessa1425 nakedness1750 aridity1835 baldness1840 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 209/1 The Consumptione, or ariditye of the Ioynctes. 1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments vi. 193 Salt taken in great Quantities will reduce an Animal Body to the great Extremity of Aridity. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 601 They [winds] are of..extreme heat and aridity. 1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. iii. 65 The natural aridity of a part of the Argive soil. 2. figurative. Dryness, lack of interest; ‘in the theological sense a kind of insensibility in devotion, contrary to unction or tenderness’ (Johnson). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious irksomeness1533 wearisomeness1579 inanity1603 tediositya1625 drynessa1637 unliveliness1643 flatness1649 tedium1662 tiresomeness1668 aridity1692 languor1741 dullness1751 uninterestingness1794 ponderousness1801 yawniness1805 unimpressiveness1827 slowness1828 grey1830 fadeness1837 woodenness1854 tristeness1866 boresomeness1883 boringness1893 stodginess1899 monochrome1962 1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 347 That sad State of Religious Life, which is called Aridity and Dryness in Monasteries. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 92 We hear them complain of frequent coolness, aridities, and desertions. 1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism (1878) I. 342 The excessive aridity of scholasticism. 1882 G. Chrystal in Nature 6 July 217/1 The aridities of modern English mathematical text-books. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.1599 |
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