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/ˌɪnfərtˈɪlɪti/ Listen

Infertility

noun

The state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate. Synonym: sterility.

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Etymology of 'Infertility'

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"Infertility" Quotes from Famous Books

... and thus the rite served the practical purpose of keeping it clear in the memory,—a matter of the utmost importance, especially for the practical Roman. In Cato's formula the farmer's object is to ward off disease, calamity, dearth, and infertility; and it is Mars who is invoked, i.e. a great god who has long ago emerged from the crowd of impersonal spirits; but we may safely believe that the primitive farmer used other language, addressing the spirits of disease and dearth themselves; and we may guess, if we will, that again before ...

— The Religious Experience of the Roman People - From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus • W. Warde Fowler

... be paid exceedingly well for doing it. There shall be no slum classes, no beggars. Nor shall there be hundreds of thousands of men and women condemned, for economic reasons, to lives of celibacy or sexual infertility. Every man shall be able to marry, to live in healthy, comfortable quarters, and to have all he wants to eat as many times a day as he wishes. There shall no longer be a life-and-death struggle for food and shelter. The old heartless law of development ...

— War of the Classes • Jack London

Words linked to "Infertility" : physiological state, impotence, infertile, cacogenesis, sterility, fertility, physiological condition, barrenness, impotency, dysgenesis, physical condition