Sterility

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state or character of being sterile.
  • noun. Lack of fecundity; barrenness: said of animals or plants.
  • noun. Fruitlessness; profitlessness.
  • noun. Deficiency in ideas, sentiments, or expression; lack of richness or luxuriance, as in literary style; poverty; baldness; meagerness.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality or condition of being sterile.
  • noun. Quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the state of being free from germs or spores.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state or quality of being sterile.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms
  • noun. 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."
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