Barrenness

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Barrenness \Bar"ren*ness\, n.
     The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           A total barrenness of invention.         --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  barrenness
       n 1: the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or
            being unable to have children
       2: a condition yielding nothing of value [syn: {fruitlessness},
           {aridity}] [ant: {fruitfulness}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  BARRENNESS. The incapacity to produce a child. This, when arising from 
  impotence, is a cause for dissolving a marriage. 1 Fodere, Med. Leg. Sec. 
  254.