barrenness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

barrenness
    n 1: the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or
         being unable to have children
    2: the quality of yielding nothing of value [syn:
       {fruitlessness}, {aridity}, {barrenness}] [ant: {fecundity},
       {fruitfulness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Barrenness \Bar"ren*ness\, n.
   The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness.
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         A total barrenness of invention.         --Dryden.
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from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

BARRENNESS. The incapacity to produce a child. This, when arising from 
impotence, is a cause for dissolving a marriage. 1 Fodere, Med. Leg. Sec. 
254.

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