sterility

Noun

Meaning

The quality or condition of being sterile.

Quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the state of being free from germs or spores.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sterileness poverty simplicity purity sanitation hygiene sterile infertility infertile freshness cleanliness sterilization flatness dryness impotence
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Antonyms

flora pus corruption infection abundance fertility
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Hypernyms

sanitariness physical condition physiological condition physiological state

Hyponyms

impotence impotency barrenness dysgenesis cacogenesis

Phrases with the word

self-sterility normospermatogenic sterility

Anagrams

elytritis

Examples

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. Pablo Picasso

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. Hilaire Belloc

Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd. Fernando Pessoa

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility. Alan Dean Foster

The aggregation of the spiritual life from the practical life is a curse that falls impartially upon both sides of our existence. A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility. Lewis Mumford

Everything can be inherited except sterility. Matt Ridley

Close letter words and terms

sterilise sterilised steriliser sterilizability sterilizable sterilizated