fecundity
/fɪˈkʌndɪti
/noun [mass noun]
1The ability to produce an abundance of offspring or new growth; fertility: multiply mated females show increased fecundity age-related decline in female fecundity...
- Food shortage can directly influence seasonal fecundity through reduced clutch or brood size.
- Nutrients such as nitrates and phosphates fuel the extraordinary biological fecundity of the seas there.
- Low fecundity makes bird species vulnerable to decline.
1.1The ability to produce many new ideas: the immense fecundity of his imagination made a profound impact on European literature...
- A new book to be published later this month bears witness to this extraordinary intellectual fecundity and entrepreneurial zeal.
- What elevates the musician above other electronic artists is the fecundity of his imagination: his resourceful ability to infuse his tracks with a distinctive compositional intelligence and command.
- The fecundity of Elizabethan language was an extraordinary phenomenon produced by an extraordinary society.
