infertility
noun
the condition or fact of being infertile or unproductive.
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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There they came suddenly upon a wide-spread sweep of turf, contrasting so brilliantly with the bygone infertilities that it seemed to them a paradise, and stretching clear on to the bluff of the pueblos.
From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest