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 Words From

• nonfe·cundi·ty noun
• super·fe·cundi·ty noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of fecundity¹

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

Example Sentences

In cultures that lack water, black sometimes indicates fecundity, because after a rain soil becomes rich and black.

From The Daily Beast

That afternoon, Seth Mandel chimed in to praise the Orthodox world capable of such fecundity.

From The Daily Beast

Of course, I visited Ralph and Marion when I came to the U.K.—and admired his intellectual and moral fecundity.

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The wearing of orange blossoms is said to have started with the Saracens, who regarded them as emblems of fecundity.

From Project Gutenberg

The Nile contributes to fecundity more than other rivers, and among other animals of large bulk, produces the amphibious kind.

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The tapeti resembles the hare in its manner of living, fecundity, and quality of its flesh, which is excellent food.

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It is the broad difference between industry and inspiration, between fecundity and pregnancy, between Jonson and Shakspere.

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The fecundity of nature, and the infinite wisdom of the Creator, always surpass our feeble conceptions.

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