Infertility

3 definitions found

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

  Infertility \In`fer*til"i*ty\, n. [L. infertilitas: cf. F.
     infertilit['e].]
     The state or quality of being infertile; unproductiveness;
     barrenness.
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           The infertility or noxiousness of the soil. --Sir M.
                                                    Hale.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  infertility
       n : 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 [syn: {sterility}] [ant: {fertility}]

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

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "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 loins