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Definition of Fecundity
1. Noun. The intellectual productivity of a creative imagination.
Generic synonyms: Creative Thinking, Creativeness, Creativity
Derivative terms: Fecund
2. Noun. The state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring.
Generic synonyms: Physical Condition, Physiological Condition, Physiological State
Attributes: Fertile, Infertile, Sterile, Unfertile
Derivative terms: Fecund, Fertile, Fertile
Antonyms: Infertility
3. Noun. The quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth.
Generic synonyms: Quality
Specialized synonyms: Fertility, Prolificacy, Rankness, Richness, Productiveness, Productivity
Derivative terms: Fruitful
Antonyms: Fruitlessness
Definition of Fecundity
1. n. The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.
Definition of Fecundity
1. Noun. Ability to produce offspring. ¹
2. Noun. Ability to cause growth. ¹
3. Noun. Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production. ¹
4. Noun. Rate of production of young by a female. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fecundity
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Medical Definition of Fecundity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fecundity
Literary usage of Fecundity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1914)
"The fecundity of city women between 15 and 44 years of age is only about two-thirds
that of country women. But in the United States cities are massed at the ..."
2. A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties by Lambert Adolphe J. Quetelet, Adolphe Quetelet, Robert Knox (1842)
"Firstly, it is necessary not to confound the fecundity of the marriages with the
fecundity of the population : then, on the other hand, in a country where ..."
3. Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1880)
"But we learn some other facts from these tables which we should be glad to know
how Mr. Sadler will explain. We find that the fecundity in towns of fewer ..."
4. Immigrant Health and the Community by Michael Marks Davis (1921)
"The Immigration Commission's Report on the "fecundity of Immigrant Women" records
in 1900 that the average number of children born to women less than ..."
5. Vital Statistics: A Memorial Volume of Selections from the Reports and by William Farr (1885)
"The division of the sum of the children by the marriages would accurately express
the fecundity, as it has been called, of marriages. ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1868)
"The fecundity of the muss of wives in our population is greatest at the commencement
of the child- bearing period of life, and after that period gradually ..."
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