aridity

n

1. aridness, parchedness, extreme dryness, dehydration, evaporation, desiccation; torridity, torridness.

2. barrenness, unproductivity, unproductiveness, sterility, sterileness; infertility, infertileness, unfertili-ty, unfruitfulness, fruitlessness, infecundity, uncultivation; poverty, poorness, deficiency, lack, impoverishment, destitution, depletion, drain; emptiness, desert, waste, desolation; bareness, plainness, starkness, nakedness.

3. prosaicness, prosiness, sterility; pointlessness, pur-poselessness, uselessness; dullness, lifelessness, flatness, tastelessness, blandness, drabness, dreariness; insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, jejunity, vapidity, vapidness; monotony, monotonousness, humdrumness, tediousness, wearisomeness; boredom, ennui, fatigue, weariness, soporiferousness.