Fecundity

Quick meaning: Fecundity is a noun meaning Ability to produce offspring.

Meaning

Ability to produce offspring.

More Meanings

1. Ability to cause growth or increase.
2. Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
3. Rate of production of young by a female.

Example Sentences

The soil spawned humanity, as it bred frogs in the Rains, and the gap of the sickness of one season was filled to overflowing by the fecundity of the next.

[I]t would not be very much less absurd for someone to write about New York City after having spent only a few years or a few decades in this metropolis of inexhaustible adventure, of terrifying emotional fecundity, of uncapturable character.

In the early days the reviewers compared him to the late Douglas Adams, but then Terry went on to write books as enthusiastically as Douglas avoided writing them, and now, if there is any comparison to be made of anything from the formal rules of a Pratchett novel to the sheer prolific fecundity of the man, it might be to P. G. Wodehouse.

Word Forms

• fecundities

Synonyms for fecundity

Depending on context, synonyms include fertileness, fertility, fruitfulness.

Antonyms for fecundity

Common opposites include aridity, sterility, infertility, barrenness, fruitlessness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fertility, fruitfulness, fertilization, reproduction, childbearing, birth.

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