An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
ARIDITY
fruitlessness, aridity, barrenness
(noun) the quality of yielding nothing of value
aridity, aridness, thirstiness
(noun) a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
aridity (countable and uncountable, plural aridities)
A long-term lack of rainfall or moisture.
Source: Wiktionary
A*rid"i*ty, n.; pl. Aridities. Etym: [L. ariditas, fr. aridus.]
1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness.
2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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