fecundityn.

Brit.

/fᵻˈkʌndᵻti/,

/fɛˈkʌndᵻti/, U.S.

/fɛˈkəndədi/,

/fiˈkəndədi/

Etymology: < Latin fēcunditāt-em fruitfulness, < fēcundus : see fecund adj. and -ity suffix. Compare French fécondité.

1. Of female animals: The faculty of reproduction, the capacity for bringing forth young; productiveness.In later use often distinguished from fertility n., esp. in demographic use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > quality or capacity of

feracityc1420

fecundity1447

fertility1490

virility1598

fruitfulness1624

Priapus1637

procreativeness1655

breedingness1674

prolificness1678

prolificalness1699

polytoky1702

breediness1753

prolificacy1756

philoprogenitiveness1842

propagability1853

teemfulness1855

teeming1856

progenitiveness1868

fecundability1926

1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 50 Whan thou..hast fecundyte Than schul they yiftes acceptable be.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 276 The fœcundity of the beastes that beareth them.

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Bee His Fecundity is such almost throughout the Year, that [etc.].

1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 7 They multiply with the fecundity of their own rattlesnakes.

1856 L. H. Grindon Life xxiv. 214 The most astonishing cases of fecundity occur among fishes and insects.

1866 J. M. Duncan Fecundity 3 By fertility or productiveness I mean the amount of births as distinguished from the capability to bear... By fecundity I mean the demonstrated capability to bear children; it implies the conditions necessary for conception in the women of whom its variations are predicated... In short, fertility implies fecundity, and also introduces the idea of number of progeny; while fecundity simply indicates the quality without any superadded notion of quantity.

1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 23 Apr. 769 A difference is drawn between fecundity and fertility. Thus women of Irish birth in Australia are less fecund than women born either in New South Wales or in Scotland, but they are more fertile. In other words fewer Irish women have children, but to those who are fecund more children are born.

1922 A. M. Carr-Saunders Pop. Problem ii. 51 Fecundity is measured by the number of ripe ova produced.

1936 Discovery Sept. 297/2 The ratio of fertility (actual production of children) to fecundity (child-bearing capacity).

1964 J. Gould & W. L. Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 265/2 Fertility in modern demographic usage relates to the actual frequency of births and carries no overtones of ability to have children. For the latter concept fecundity or reproductive capacity are now used.

2. Botany. The faculty or power of germinating.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun] > germinating power

fecundity1691

vitality1829

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 222 Some Seeds that retain their fecundity Forty Years.

1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Fecundity..in Botany, the capacity of a seed for germination.

3. Of the earth: The quality of producing abundantly; fertility.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > [noun] > condition of

fatheada1325

fecundityc1420

fertility1490

battleness1598

pinguity1623

exuberance1691

richness1796

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [noun] > soil as source of growth > fertility or richness

fecundityc1420

fertility1490

pregnance?1533

fatness1555

battleness1598

pride1603

lust1605

pregnancy1615

pinguity1623

generousness1695

productivity1865

c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 57 Ffecunditee thowe see thus in this lande.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 320 The..fecundite or plentuosenes of the soyle.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xlj The Cornyshe men inhabityng the least parte of the realme..and without all fecunditee, compleyned and grudged greatly.

1622 T. Scott Belgicke Pismire 2 The Earth..prevented thy desires with overflowing fecunditie.

1719 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher II. xx. vii. 552 It [sc. the Earth] has never failed, nor entirely lost its Fecundity.

1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico II. iv. vii. 250 The marvellous fecundity of the soil.

4. Productiveness in general, the faculty or power of being fruitful, fertility:

a. of material things.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [noun] > of material things

fecundity1555

fruitfulness1630

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 266 It noryssheth the fecunditie of thynges generate.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 137 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors This fecundity lasts all night, till the returne of the Sunne makes both the flowers and leaves drop off.

1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 102 That Fecundity, which..antient Physicians..attributed to a Sympathy, or Love among Trees.

1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) I. 573 It is not the heat of the Tropics which gives to this tree a fecundity so constant, and so varied.

1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xiv. 181 A few drops of a vegetable fluid impress us with an idea of the..fecundity of nature.

1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity I. iii. vi. 424 The monks seem to multiply with greater fecundity than the population of the most flourishing cities.

b. of immaterial things.

ΚΠ

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 139 The fecundity of the words.

1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) i. 2 A demonstrative Proof of the..fœcundity of his Wisdom and Power.

1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xii. §17 The mischief..is..in point of fecundity pregnant to a degree that baffles calculation.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 54 The extreme fecundity of the press.

1842 H. Rogers Ess. I. i. 10 That fecundity of fancy, which can adorn whatever it touches.

5. The capacity for making fruitful or productive, fertilizing power.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > [noun] > river > capacity for fertilizing ground

fecundity1642

the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [noun] > making or becoming productive or fruitful > capacity for

pregnance?1533

fecundity1642

parturiency1652

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > fecundation or impregnation > [noun] > power

fecundity1642

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. K7^v The fixed sunne..through his fecundity Peoples the world.

1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 443 The River Nilus is famous for its Greatness and Fœcundity.

1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 144 The ancients thought that the waters of the Nile must have some power of fecundity.

1868 W. Peard Pract. Water-farming xii. 120 The fecundity of ‘the springs’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	fecundity
释义	fecundityn. Brit. /fᵻˈkʌndᵻti/, /fɛˈkʌndᵻti/, U.S. /fɛˈkəndədi/, /fiˈkəndədi/ Etymology: < Latin fēcunditāt-em fruitfulness, < fēcundus : see fecund adj. and -ity suffix. Compare French fécondité. 1. Of female animals: The faculty of reproduction, the capacity for bringing forth young; productiveness.In later use often distinguished from fertility n., esp. in demographic use. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > quality or capacity of feracityc1420 fecundity1447 fertility1490 virility1598 fruitfulness1624 Priapus1637 procreativeness1655 breedingness1674 prolificness1678 prolificalness1699 polytoky1702 breediness1753 prolificacy1756 philoprogenitiveness1842 propagability1853 teemfulness1855 teeming1856 progenitiveness1868 fecundability1926 1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 50 Whan thou..hast fecundyte Than schul they yiftes acceptable be. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 276 The fœcundity of the beastes that beareth them. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Bee His Fecundity is such almost throughout the Year, that [etc.]. 1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 7 They multiply with the fecundity of their own rattlesnakes. 1856 L. H. Grindon Life xxiv. 214 The most astonishing cases of fecundity occur among fishes and insects. 1866 J. M. Duncan Fecundity 3 By fertility or productiveness I mean the amount of births as distinguished from the capability to bear... By fecundity I mean the demonstrated capability to bear children; it implies the conditions necessary for conception in the women of whom its variations are predicated... In short, fertility implies fecundity, and also introduces the idea of number of progeny; while fecundity simply indicates the quality without any superadded notion of quantity. 1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 23 Apr. 769 A difference is drawn between fecundity and fertility. Thus women of Irish birth in Australia are less fecund than women born either in New South Wales or in Scotland, but they are more fertile. In other words fewer Irish women have children, but to those who are fecund more children are born. 1922 A. M. Carr-Saunders Pop. Problem ii. 51 Fecundity is measured by the number of ripe ova produced. 1936 Discovery Sept. 297/2 The ratio of fertility (actual production of children) to fecundity (child-bearing capacity). 1964 J. Gould & W. L. Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 265/2 Fertility in modern demographic usage relates to the actual frequency of births and carries no overtones of ability to have children. For the latter concept fecundity or reproductive capacity are now used. 2. Botany. The faculty or power of germinating. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun] > germinating power fecundity1691 vitality1829 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 222 Some Seeds that retain their fecundity Forty Years. 1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Fecundity..in Botany, the capacity of a seed for germination. 3. Of the earth: The quality of producing abundantly; fertility. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > [noun] > condition of fatheada1325 fecundityc1420 fertility1490 battleness1598 pinguity1623 exuberance1691 richness1796 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [noun] > soil as source of growth > fertility or richness fecundityc1420 fertility1490 pregnance?1533 fatness1555 battleness1598 pride1603 lust1605 pregnancy1615 pinguity1623 generousness1695 productivity1865 c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 57 Ffecunditee thowe see thus in this lande. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 320 The..fecundite or plentuosenes of the soyle. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xlj The Cornyshe men inhabityng the least parte of the realme..and without all fecunditee, compleyned and grudged greatly. 1622 T. Scott Belgicke Pismire 2 The Earth..prevented thy desires with overflowing fecunditie. 1719 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher II. xx. vii. 552 It [sc. the Earth] has never failed, nor entirely lost its Fecundity. 1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico II. iv. vii. 250 The marvellous fecundity of the soil. 4. Productiveness in general, the faculty or power of being fruitful, fertility: a. of material things. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [noun] > of material things fecundity1555 fruitfulness1630 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 266 It noryssheth the fecunditie of thynges generate. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 137 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors This fecundity lasts all night, till the returne of the Sunne makes both the flowers and leaves drop off. 1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 102 That Fecundity, which..antient Physicians..attributed to a Sympathy, or Love among Trees. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) I. 573 It is not the heat of the Tropics which gives to this tree a fecundity so constant, and so varied. 1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xiv. 181 A few drops of a vegetable fluid impress us with an idea of the..fecundity of nature. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity I. iii. vi. 424 The monks seem to multiply with greater fecundity than the population of the most flourishing cities. b. of immaterial things. ΚΠ a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 139 The fecundity of the words. 1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) i. 2 A demonstrative Proof of the..fœcundity of his Wisdom and Power. 1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xii. §17 The mischief..is..in point of fecundity pregnant to a degree that baffles calculation. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 54 The extreme fecundity of the press. 1842 H. Rogers Ess. I. i. 10 That fecundity of fancy, which can adorn whatever it touches. 5. The capacity for making fruitful or productive, fertilizing power. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > [noun] > river > capacity for fertilizing ground fecundity1642 the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [noun] > making or becoming productive or fruitful > capacity for pregnance?1533 fecundity1642 parturiency1652 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > fecundation or impregnation > [noun] > power fecundity1642 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. K7^v The fixed sunne..through his fecundity Peoples the world. 1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 443 The River Nilus is famous for its Greatness and Fœcundity. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 144 The ancients thought that the waters of the Nile must have some power of fecundity. 1868 W. Peard Pract. Water-farming xii. 120 The fecundity of ‘the springs’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1420
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