infecundity

Inability to conceive

Infecundity is the inability to produce offspring—sterility or barrenness.

The term appears in formal, scientific, or literary contexts rather than everyday speech: The infecundity of the soil made farming impossible.

It applies to people, animals, plants, or figuratively to anything unproductive: the infecundity of his later creative work.

metaphorical

unproductiveness

Failing to yield results

futility · barren · fallow period · drought · unimaginative · uncreative · unprolific

biological

infertility

Inability to reproduce

subfertility · endometriosis · polycystic · hypogonadism · amenorrhea · reproductive · conception · fertility treatment · IVF · assisted reproduction

agricultural

barrenness

Inability to bear fruit

blight · drought · harvestless · nonproductive · arid · depleted soil · unfertile · poor yield · failed harvest · scarcity

Opposites
reproductive capacity

infecundityfertility

Capacity for reproduction

fecundity · fruitfulness · prolificacy · virility · potency

productivity/abundance

infecundityfruitfulness

Capacity for abundant production

fecundity · fertility · productiveness · prolificness · abundance

Family

fecund, fecundity, fecundate, fecundation

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