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Noun pregnancy has 1 sense
- pregnancy(n = noun.state) gestation, maternity - the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus; Array has parts: cleavage, segmentation, quickening, childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail, morning sickness
is a kind of physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state
has particulars: trouble, gravidation, gravidity, gravidness, gravida, para, parity, eccyesis, ectopic gestation, ectopic pregnancy, extrauterine gestation, extrauterine pregnancy, metacyesis, entopic pregnancy, placenta previa
Derived form adjective pregnant1
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pregnancy, n.
- The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with young. [1913 Webster]
- Figuratively: The quality of being heavy with important contents, issue, significance, etc.; unusual consequence or capacity; fertility. Fuller. [1913 Webster]
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pregnancy
abundance, appropriateness, auspiciousness, babyhood, beginnings, bigness, birth, bountifulness, brooding, chargedness, childhood, convenience, copiousness, covering, cradle, criticality, crucialness, expedience, expressiveness, exuberance, favorableness, fecundity, felicitousness, fertility, fitness, fittingness, freshman year, fructiferousness, fruitfulness, generousness, genesis, gestation, gravidity, gravidness, greatness, heaviness, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incubation, incunabula, infancy, intelligibility, interpretability, loadedness, lushness, luxuriance, meaningfulness, meatiness, meetness, nascence, nascency, nativity, opportuneness, origin, origination, parturition, pithiness, plenteousness, plentifulness, procreativeness, productive capacity, productiveness, productivity, prolificacy, propitiousness, propriety, readability, richness, rightness, ripeness, seasonableness, sententiousness, significance, significancy, significantness, sitting, situation, suggestiveness, suitability, superabundance, swarmingness, teeming womb, teemingness, the family way, timeliness, youthROGET 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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