sterility
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sterility \Ste*ril"i*ty\, n. [L. sterilitas: cf. F.
st['e]rilit['e].]
1. The quality or condition of being sterile.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Biol.) Quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the
state of being free from germs or spores.
[1913 Webster]
from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
STERILITY. Barrenness; incapacity to produce a child. It is curable and
incurable; when of the latter kind, at the time of the marriage, and arising
from impotency, it is a good cause for dissolving a marriage. 1 Fodere, Med.
Leg. Sec. 254. See Impotency.
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "sterility":
aridity, asepsis, barrenness, birth control, bloodlessness,
characterlessness, cleanliness, cleanly habits, cleanness,
colorlessness, contraception, daintiness, deadness, dearth,
dismalness, dragginess, dreariness, dry womb, dryness, dullness,
dustiness, effeteness, emptiness, etiolation, family planning,
famine, fastidiousness, flatness, freshness, heaviness, hollowness,
hospital cleanliness, immaculacy, immaculateness, impotence,
inanity, ineffectualness, inexcitability, infecundity, infertility,
insipidity, insipidness, jejunity, leadenness, lifelessness,
lowness of spirit, paleness, pallor, planned parenthood,
pointlessness, pokiness, ponderousness, pureness, purity, slowness,
solemnity, spiritlessness, spotlessness, stainlessness,
sterileness, stiffness, stodginess, stuffiness, superficiality,
tastelessness, tediousness, tidiness, unfertileness,
unfruitfulness, uninterestingness, unliveliness, unproductiveness,
unspottedness, vapidity, vapidness, whiteness, withered loins,
woodenness
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