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fertileness |
fertilisation |
fertilise |
fertiliser |
fertilitate |
fertility
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| fertility god
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Noun fertility has 3 senses
- fertility(n = noun.time) birth rate, birthrate, fertility rate, natality - the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year; Array is a kind of rate
- fertility(n = noun.state) fecundity - the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring; Array is a kind of physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state
- fertility(n = noun.attribute) prolificacy, rankness, richness - the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovely in their rankness" is a kind of fecundity, fruitfulness
Derived forms adjective fertile1, adjective fertile3
Antonym: infertility
Derived form adjective fertile4
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fertility, n. [L. fertilitas: cf. F. fertilité.].
The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination. E. Everett. [1913 Webster]
"And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps
Corrupting in its own fertility." [1913 Webster]
Corrupting in its own fertility." [1913 Webster]
"Thy very weeds are beautiful; thy waste
More rich than other climes' fertility." [1913 Webster]
More rich than other climes' fertility." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
fertility
abundance, affluence, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, avalanche, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, bumper crop, cloud of words, copiousness, creativeness, creativity, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, effusion, effusiveness, extravagance, exuberance, fecundity, fertile mind, flood, flow, fluency, foison, formlessness, fructiferousness, fruitfulness, full measure, fullness, generosity, generousness, great abundance, great plenty, gush, gushing, ingenuity, invention, inventiveness, landslide, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, logorrhea, lots, lushness, luxuriance, macrology, maximum, more than enough, much, myriad, myriads, numerousness, opulence, opulency, originality, outpour, outpouring, overflow, palilogy, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, pleonasm, pregnancy, pregnant imagination, prevalence, procreativeness, prodigality, productive capacity, productiveness, productivity, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificity, quantities, rampancy, rankness, redundancy, reiteration, reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitiveness, repleteness, repletion, resourcefulness, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, scads, shower, spate, stream, substantiality, substantialness, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, swarmingness, talkativeness, tautology, teeming imagination, teeming womb, teemingness, tirade, wealthROGET THESAURUS
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Productiveness
N productiveness, fecundity, fertility, luxuriance, uberty, pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation, procreation, superfetation, milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey, second crop, aftermath, aftercrop, aftergrowth, arrish, eddish, rowen, protoplasm, fertilization, productive, prolific, teeming, teemful, fertile, fruitful, frugiferous, fruit-bearing, fecund, luxuriant, pregnant, uberous, procreant, procreative, generative, life-giving, spermatic, multiparous, omnific, propagable, parturient, profitable.
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