Aridnesses [noun]

Definition of Aridnesses:

desolateness

But I felt a great aridness within me, and the sources of grace seemed closed against me.

As we came further and further south, the extreme aridness of the landscape began to lessen.

Surely a whole continent must separate such luxury and such aridness.

The aridness, the desiccation, the lifelessness of everything about was somehow shocking.