fertility

fer·til·i·ty

the quality, state, or degree of being fertile; fecundity
the birthrate of a given population

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fertility

noun

The condition, quality, or degree of being fertile.
The birthrate of a population.

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Noun

(countable and uncountable, plural fertilities)

(uncountable) The condition, or the degree, of being fertile.
Muckspreading increases the fertility of the soil.
(countable) The birthrate of a population; the number of live births per 1000 people per year.
The average number of births per woman within a population.

Origin

From Middle French fertilité, from Latin fertilitas.

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fertility - Medical Definition

n.

The condition, quality, or degree of being fertile.
The birthrate of a population.

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The fertility of its territory was also praised by ancient authors.
In modern economics "fertility" has no very definite meaning.
The clay soils of England, Agricul- the latent fertility of which was to be brought into 187 since Y g I sis.
The fertility of the land shall be such as was long ago predicted in Amos ix.
As the great nature-goddess, the attributes of fertility and reproduction are characteristically hers, as also the accompanying immorality which originally, perhaps, was often nothing more than primitive magic. As patroness of the hunt, later identification with Artemis was inevitable.

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