Meaning of FECUNDITY
| Pronunciation: | | fi'kunditee
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- [n] the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
- [n] the intellectual fruitfulness of a creative imagination
- [n] the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
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| | Synonyms: | | fertility, fruitfulness, fruitfulness |
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| | Antonyms: | | aridity, barrenness, fruitlessness, infertility, sterility | | |
| | See Also: | | creativeness, creativity, fertility, physiological condition, physiological state, productiveness, productivity, prolificacy, quality, richness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fe*cun"di*ty\, n. [L. fecunditas: cf. F.
f['e]condit['e]. See {Fecund}.]
1. The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness;
especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of
reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.
2. The power of germinating; as in seeds.
3. The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility;
richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative
power. --Bentley.
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- A measure of fertility, such as sperm count or egg count.
- Fertility; the number of live offspring produced by an organism.
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