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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unfruitfulness en · NOUN

Etymology

From unfruitful + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) the state or property of being unfruitful; fruitlessness, barrenness
    • Athena … And be ye no longer indignant, launch not your grievous wrath upon this land, nor visit it with unfruitfulness by discharging drops whose wasting influence will devour the seed. 1926, Herbert Weir Smyth, “Eumenides”, in Aeschylus, with an English translation, volume II, page 349:

Translations (5)

gv shastaght (state or property of being unfruitful) · gv neuvessoilid (state or property of being unfruitful) · ro sterilitate (state or property of being unfruitful) · ro nerodnicie (state or property of being unfruitful) · grc ἀκαρπία (state or property of being unfruitful)