'Fertility' definitions:
Definition of 'fertility'
(from WordNet)
noun
The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year [syn: birthrate, birth rate, fertility, fertility rate, natality]
noun
The state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring [syn: fertility, fecundity] [ant: infertility, sterility]
noun
The property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovely in their rankness" [syn: richness, rankness, prolificacy, fertility]
Definition of 'Fertility'
From: GCIDE
- Fertility \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. [1913 Webster]
- And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps Corrupting in its own fertility. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Thy very weeds are beautiful; thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fertility'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Fertility'
- Fertile,
- Fertilely,
- Fertilization,
- Fertilize,
- Fertilized,
- Fertilizer,
- Fertilizing,
- fertileness,
- Close fertilization,
- Cross fertilization,
- Fertile, IA,
- Fertile, MN,
- Illegitimate fertilization,
- fertile crescent,
- fertile period,
- fertile phase,
- fertility drug,
- fertility god,
- fertility rate,
- fertilization age,
- fertilization membrane,
- fertilized egg,
- fertilized ovum,
- organic fertilizer,
- Cross-fertilize,
- Cross-fertilized,
- Cross-fertilizing,
- Self-fertilization,
- Self-fertilized,
- Wind-fertilized,
- cross-fertilization