fecundity

[fi-kuhn-di-tee]

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.

fecundity

/ fɪˈkʌndɪtɪ /

noun

1. fertility; fruitfulness

2. intellectual fruitfulness; creativity

Other Word Forms

• nonfecundity noun
• superfecundity noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of fecundity¹

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

Example Sentences

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

And nobody had acknowledged her blatant fecundity in the slightest, which is such a peak Irish Catholic family move I've got to respect it.

From Salon

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