barrenness
Complete lack of fertility
Barrenness is the state of being barren—empty, unproductive, or unable to bear fruit.
Land may suffer barrenness when nothing will grow there.
The word applies to creative or intellectual drought: the barrenness of his later work.
It can describe a woman's inability to conceive, though this usage now sounds clinical or old-fashioned.
Uninhabitable barren region
- desolationState of complete emptiness
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
- forsakenCompletely abandoned or discarded
- abandonedLeft behind completely
stark · void · arid · inhospitable · lifeless · grim · dismal · uninhabited
Absence of microbes or fertility
- childlessnessLacking any offspring
- infecundityLack of reproductive capacity
- conceptionFormation of an idea
- reproductiveRelated to producing offspring
miscarriage · IVF · endometriosis · subfertility · hormonal imbalance · assisted reproduction · fertility treatment · womb
Without an occupant
bare · emptiness · lack · absence · nothingness · vacuity · vacuum · sparse
Producing no useful outcome
- unfruitfulFailing to produce results
- unproductiveFailing to achieve results
- fallowUnplanted field recovering
- uncultivatedNot tended or planted
yield · harvest · depleted soil · drought · crop failure · untilled · exhausted · desert farming
Severe lack of resources
- lackDeficiency or absence
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- deficiencyLack of something needed
- dearthAcute shortage of something
scarcity · want · deprivation · paucity · insufficiency · deficit · famine · drought
wasteland
Uninhabitable barren region
- desolationState of complete emptiness
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
- forsakenCompletely abandoned or discarded
abandoned · stark · void · arid · inhospitable · lifeless · grim · dismal · uninhabited · ravaged
sterility
Absence of microbes or fertility
- childlessnessLacking any offspring
- infecundityLack of reproductive capacity
- conceptionFormation of an idea
reproductive · miscarriage · IVF · endometriosis · subfertility · hormonal imbalance · assisted reproduction · fertility treatment · womb · biological clock
vacant
Without an occupant
hollow · bare · emptiness · lack · absence · nothingness · vacuity · vacuum · sparse · stripped
fruitless
Producing no useful outcome
- unfruitfulFailing to produce results
- unproductiveFailing to achieve results
- fallowUnplanted field recovering
uncultivated · yield · harvest · depleted soil · drought · crop failure · untilled · exhausted · desert farming · eroded
poverty
Severe lack of resources
- lackDeficiency or absence
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- deficiencyLack of something needed
dearth · scarcity · want · deprivation · paucity · insufficiency · deficit · famine · drought · meager
- Biblical Afflictionsleprosy, blindness, boils, plagues, pestilence
- desolationbleakness, emptiness, wasteland, desolation, devastation
- GenesisAdam, Eve, Noah, Abraham, Isaac
- Sterilitysterility, infertility, sterilization, childlessness, aseptic
- abandonmentabandon, abandoned, forsake, desert, leave
- deprivationlack, deprivation, need, want, shortage
barrennessfertility
Capacity for reproduction
fecundity · fruitfulness · reproductiveness · prolificacy · virility
barrennessfertility
Capacity for reproduction
fruitfulness · fecundity · lushness · verdancy · richness
barrennessfruitfulness
Capacity for abundant production
productivity · creativity · fecundity · inventiveness · richness