fecundity
Other forms: fecundities
Fecundity means fruitfulness and fertility, the ability to produce abundant healthy growth or offspring.
What a wonderful word fecundity is! It refers to a powerful productivity, usually in the area of natural growth, either from the earth or by human reproduction. But it can also be used to describe great mental ability and creativity, the ability to create intellectual products. In any case, fecundity has a positive sense, suggesting healthy growth of life-forms and mental abilities.
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the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
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synonyms:
fertility
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Antonyms:
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infertility, sterility
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
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physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state
the condition or state of the body or bodily functions
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infertility, sterility
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the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
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synonyms:
fruitfulness
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Antonyms:
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aridity, barrenness, fruitlessness
the quality of yielding nothing of value
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types:
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fertility, prolificacy, rankness, richness
the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth
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productiveness, productivity
the quality of being productive or having the power to produce
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quality
an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
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aridity, barrenness, fruitlessness
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the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination
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synonyms:
fruitfulness
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creative thinking, creativeness, creativity
the ability to create
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creative thinking, creativeness, creativity
Vocabulary lists containing fecundity
In 1831, French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville visited the United States. In this book, he records his impressions of the customs and culture of the young nation. Learn these words from the translation by Henry Reeve.
This list covers "Threat 1: Overfishing," "Destructive Fishing," "Protecting Ocean Habitat from Bottom Trawling," "A Rapidly Disappearing Fish," and "Case Study: Atlantic Bluefin Tuna."
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