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n. The property of being barren; the property of not supporting life.

n. The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness.

n. The state or quality of being barren.

n. Want of fertility; total or partial sterility: infertility: as, the barrenness of the land.

n. Want of the power of producing anything; want of instructiveness, suggestiveness, interest, or the like; want of matter: as, “barrenness of invention,”

n. Defect of emotion, sensibility, or fervency.

n. the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children

n. the quality of yielding nothing of value

"Indeed, I have worn out the mortars with beating wool and pounding drugs,186 and I am not to blame; the barrenness is with thee, for that thou art a snub-nosed mule and thy sperm is weak and watery and impregnateth not neither getteth children."

infertility    sterility   

sterility    unproductiveness   

sterility    desolation    dreariness    shallowness    aridity