infecundity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   inability or reduced ability to reproduce; lack of fertility

   Researchers investigated whether pollution contributed to the population's infecundity.

2. 2
   noun

   lack of productivity, creativity, or fruitfulness

   The critic blamed the movement's artistic infecundity on rigid doctrine.

From in- ("not") + fecundity, ultimately from Latin infecunditas ("unfruitfulness"). Like fecundity, it can refer literally to reproduction or figuratively to productive and creative capacity.

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