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prolificity|prəʊlɪˈfɪsɪtɪ| [f. med.L. prōlific-us prolific + -ity: cf. elasticity, rusticity, etc.] The quality of being prolific or fruitful.
1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Laurus Tinus, Excess of Vigour is a Hinderance of Prolificity. 1808Coleridge in Edin. Rev. XII. 369 The known prolificity of the Blacks under very unfavourable circumstances. 1887A. M. Brown Anim. Alkaloids Introd. 14 The foreign cells comport themselves much in the mode that cancer cells..do, exhibiting a life, a power of prolificity so active as to rapidly invade the whole economy. |