About The Word Fertility

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Fertility

Fertility Meaning & Definition
Fertility Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fertility?

[n] the property of producing abundantly and sustaining growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"
[n] the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
[n] the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year

Synonyms | Synonyms for Fertility: birth rate | birthrate | fecundity | fertility rate | natality | prolificacy | richness

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

See Also | fecundity | fruitfulness | physiological condition | physiological state | rate

Fertility In Webster's Dictionary

\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. And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps Corrupting in its own fertility. --Shak. Thy very weeds are beautiful; thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility. --Byron.

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