fecundity

American  

[fi-kuhn-di-tee] / fɪˈkʌn dɪ ti /

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.

3. the capacity of abundant production.

   fecundity of imagination.

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fecundity British  

/ fɪˈkʌndɪtɪ /

noun

1. fertility; fruitfulness

2. intellectual fruitfulness; creativity

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Other Word Forms

• nonfecundity noun
• superfecundity noun

Etymology

Origin of fecundity

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

Example Sentences

Why do so many of us spend money and effort sweeping all that fecundity away?

From The Wall Street Journal

Miranda July’s book ‘All Fours,’ about a Los Angeles woman’s reckoning with perimenopause, imagines the end of fecundity as a joyful second flowering.

From Los Angeles Times

The blessing has been a tradition on Olvera Street since its founding in 1930, when priests would bless cows, horses and goats at La Placita Church “to help ensure health, fecundity and productivity.”

From Los Angeles Times

The tests also found that adult male fish exposed to bifenthrin an cyhalothrin as larvae had smaller gonads than the control group, while the second generation had increased fecundity.

From Science Daily

They could also help scientists better understand our planet’s fecundity and predict how lifeforms may use carbon in the future.

From Science Magazine