It is aridness compared to talented invention.
"The Tapestry Book"
Helen Churchill Candee
But the gallant fellow, with the sturdy common-sense for which the British soldier is renowned, contrasted the clover in which he was living here with the aridness of Flowery End, and declined to budge.
"The Red Planet"
William J. Locke
The aridness, the desiccation, the lifelessness of everything about was somehow shocking.
"Sand Doom"
William Fitzgerald Jenkins