infertilityn.
/ɪnfəˈtɪlɪti/ The quality or condition of being infertile; unfruitfulness, unproductiveness, barrenness.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > unproductiveness > [noun]
famine1362
barrentya1382
poverty?1440
infertility1610
unfertileness1611
non-production1656
non-productiveness1848
unfructuosity1884
zero growth1907
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [noun] > soil as source of growth > infertility
barrennessa1425
sterility1426
poorness1577
infertility1610
leanness1612
scarceness1678
unproductiveness1777
rammel1795
unproductivity1872
unfertility1888
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [noun]
unkinda1200
barrenhoodc1380
barrennessa1382
geldheada1400
sterility1535
sterileness1558
unfruitfulness1565
infecundity1605
deadness1611
infertility1869
subfertility1917
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. iii. 7 The Minerals..shall Counteruaile the infertilitie of Soile.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. ix. 214 Commonly the same distemperature of the Air that occasioned the Plague, occasioned also the infertility or noxiousness of the Soil.
1867 G. H. Lewes Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) I. Prolegomena iii. p. lxii This immunity from error accompanies an infertility of knowledge.
1869 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 5) viii. 319 Individuals which happened to be endowed..with mutual infertility.
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