fecundity

Noun

Meaning

The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.

The power of germinating; as in seeds.

The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

fertility fruitfulness pregnancy amplitude productivity abundance diffusion redundancy puberty richness potency ingenuity sterilization femininity profusion
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Antonyms

infertility sterility aridity childlessness barrenness insipidity
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Hypernyms

quality creativeness creativity creative thinking physical condition physiological condition

Hyponyms

fertility productivity richness rankness prolificacy productiveness

Related terms

fecundation fecund

Phrases with the word

fecundity selection

Examples

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy. John Maynard Keynes

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity. A. E. Waite

So the Church too, like Mary, enjoys perpetual virginity and uncorrupted fecundity. Augustine of Hippo

Gestation and fecundity Hamsters are seasonal breeders and will produce several litters a year with several pups in each litter. Source: Internet

Fertility involves the number of children that women have and is to be contrasted with fecundity (a woman's childbearing potential). Source: Internet

Evolution favours high rates of fecundity in r-selected species. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

fecundicity fecundify fecundist fecundity selection fecundize fecundly