reproductiveness

Ability to multiply

The quality or capacity of being reproductive—able to produce offspring, copies, or new instances.

The term appears mainly in technical contexts discussing biological fertility or the ability of systems to generate outputs: The reproductiveness of the soil determines crop yields.

Reproducibility is the more common noun for scientific replication.

biological

fertility

Capacity for reproduction

procreation · spawning · germination · pollination · conception · gestation · offspring · progeny · multiplication · generation

artistic

copying

Reproducing something exactly

facsimile · printing · lithography · etching · engraving · casting · molding · forgery · authenticity · edition

scientific

replicability

Ability to duplicate results

verification · methodology · validity · experimental · measurability · standardization · protocol · precision · accuracy · duplication

Opposites
fertility/generative capacity

reproductivenesssterility

Absence of microbes or fertility

infertility · unproductiveness · barrenness · unfruitfulness · infecundity

Family

produce, product, production, producer, produced, productive, producing, productivity, unproductive

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