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siccity

siccity noun: dryness.

Noun

siccity (usually uncountable, plural siccities)

  1. (formal, rare, usually) Dryness.
    • To the preservation of life the natural heat is most requisite, though siccity and humidity […] be not excluded., Book I, New York, 2001, page 156
    • The Lumincus Lamp of Progression, whose sciatherical shadows falling upon earthly matter, not promoting sciolism, or Siccity, may it illumine humanity as it tardigradely floats from matter's aquius wastes, to minds majestic and apyrous climes.1875, Marietta Holley, My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, page 172

siccity meaning in Tamil

siccity in Tamil

வறட்சி

Examples of siccity in a sentence

  • […] so long as the polar heavens regulate the movement of the Northern Bear, and preserve it, in its siccity (the Bears are called "siccæ", or dry, as they never set) […]1902, Watson Bradshaw, "Medea", Act III., in The Ten Tragedies of Seneca, page 431
  • Only by extreme siccity is such land possible when more water rises in evaporation than falls by precipitation.2006, Joseph A. Munk, Arizona Sketches, ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 124:
  • This generally gives values of siccity close to 50%.2007, Patricia Arlabosse, Jean-Henry Ferrasse, Didier Lecomte, Michel Crine, Yohann Dumont, Angélique Léonard, “Efficient sludge thermal...

Forms of siccity

pluralsiccities

Origin of siccity

From Latin siccitas, from siccus (“dry”).

Questions about siccity

What does siccity mean?
Siccity means dryness.
What is siccity in Tamil?
Siccity in Tamil is வறட்சி. See Siccity meaning in Tamil.
How do you use siccity in a sentence?
[…] so long as the polar heavens regulate the movement of the Northern Bear, and preserve it, in its siccity (the Bears are called "siccæ", or dry, as they never set) […]
What part of speech is siccity?
Siccity is a noun.
What is the plural of siccity?
The plural of siccity is siccities.

Words near siccity in the dictionary

  1. siccer
  2. siccimeter
  3. siccimeters
  4. siccing
  5. siccities
  6. siccity
  7. sice
  8. siced
  9. Sicel
  10. Siceliot
  11. Siceliots

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Adapted from Wiktionary: siccity (page history and authors); siccity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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