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Noun infertility has 1 sense
- infertility(n = noun.state) sterility - the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate; Array is a kind of physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state
has particulars: impotence, impotency, barrenness, cacogenesis, dysgenesis
Antonym: fertility
Derived form adjective infertile1
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infertility, n. [L. infertilitas: cf. F. infertilité.].
The state or quality of being infertile; unproductiveness; barrenness. [1913 Webster]
"The infertility or noxiousness of the soil."
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infertility
aridity, aridness, barrenness, birth control, contraception, dearth, dearth of ideas, dry womb, dryness, dullness, family planning, famine, impotence, ineffectualness, infecundity, planned parenthood, prosaicism, prosaicness, prosaism, prosiness, staidness, sterileness, sterility, stolidity, stuffiness, uncreativeness, unfancifulness, unfertileness, unfruitfulness, unimaginativeness, unoriginality, unpoeticalness, unproductiveness, withered loinsROGET THESAURUS
infertility
Unproductiveness
N unproductiveness, infertility, sterility, infecundity, masturbation, impotence, unprofitableness, waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness, unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund, sine prole, fallow, teemless, issueless, fruitless, unprofitable, null and void, of no effect.
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