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Sterility

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The state or quality of being sterile.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality or condition of being sterile.

n. Quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the state of being free from germs or spores.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state or character of being sterile.

n. Lack of fecundity; barrenness: said of animals or plants.

n. Fruitlessness; profitlessness.

n. Deficiency in ideas, sentiments, or expression; lack of richness or luxuriance, as in literary style; poverty; baldness; meagerness.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms

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

Word Usage

"He objected especially to what he called the sterility of the logic then currently taught, and pleaded for a reform of the science along lines of broader human interest."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

sanitariness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

infecundity

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

accessibility advisability availability believability collectibility

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

infertility barrenness impotence blindness wretchedness