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单词 aridity
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aridityn.

/əˈrɪdɪti/
Etymology: < Latin āriditas, < āridus : see arid adj. and -ity suffix. Compare French aridité.
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).
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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).
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