fecundity

[ fi-kuhn-di-tee ]
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noun
  1. the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.

  2. fruitfulness or fertility, as of the earth.

  1. the capacity of abundant production: fecundity of imagination.

Origin of fecundity

1
1375–1425; late Middle English <Latin fēcunditās fruitfulness, fertility. See fecund, -ity

Other words from fecundity

  • non·fe·cun·di·ty, noun
  • su·per·fe·cun·di·ty, noun

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British Dictionary definitions for fecundity

fecundity

/ (fɪˈkʌndɪtɪ) /


noun
  1. fertility; fruitfulness

  2. intellectual fruitfulness; creativity

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