Fertility

3 definitions found

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

  Fertility \Fer*til"i*ty\, n. [L. fertilitas: cf. F.
     fertilit['e].]
     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. "fertility of


     resource." --E. Everett.
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           And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps
           Corrupting in its own fertility.         --Shak.
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           Thy very weeds are beautiful; thy waste
           More rich than other climes' fertility.  --Byron.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fertility
       n 1: the ratio of live births in an area to the population of
            that area; expressed per 1000 population per year [syn:
            {birthrate}, {birth rate}, {fertility rate}, {natality}]
       2: the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
          [syn: {fecundity}] [ant: {sterility}]
       3: the property of producing abundantly and sustaining growth;
          "he praised the richness of the soil" [syn: {richness}, {prolificacy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  113 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, wealth