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sterilisation |
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sterility
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sterility
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sterility has 2 senses
- sterility(n = noun.state) antisepsis, asepsis, sterileness - (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms; Array is a kind of sanitariness
- sterility(n = noun.state) infertility - 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
Derived form adjective sterile2
has particulars: impotence, impotency, barrenness, cacogenesis, dysgenesis
Derived form adjective sterile1
CIDE DICTIONARY
sterility, n. [L. sterilitas: cf. F. stérilité.].
- The quality or condition of being sterile. [1913 Webster]
- Quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the state of being free from germs or spores. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
sterility
aridity, asepsis, barrenness, birth control, bloodlessness, characterlessness, cleanliness, cleanly habits, cleanness, colorlessness, contraception, daintiness, deadness, dearth, dismalness, dragginess, dreariness, dry womb, dryness, dullness, dustiness, effeteness, emptiness, etiolation, family planning, famine, fastidiousness, flatness, freshness, heaviness, hollowness, hospital cleanliness, immaculacy, immaculateness, impotence, inanity, ineffectualness, inexcitability, infecundity, infertility, insipidity, insipidness, jejunity, leadenness, lifelessness, lowness of spirit, paleness, pallor, planned parenthood, pointlessness, pokiness, ponderousness, pureness, purity, slowness, solemnity, spiritlessness, spotlessness, stainlessness, sterileness, stiffness, stodginess, stuffiness, superficiality, tastelessness, tediousness, tidiness, unfertileness, unfruitfulness, uninterestingness, unliveliness, unproductiveness, unspottedness, vapidity, vapidness, whiteness, withered loins, woodennessROGET THESAURUS
sterility
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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