| 1. fecundity, reproductivity, fruitfulness. fertilityfer*tili*ty , n. [l. fertilitas: cf. f. fertilité.] the state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination. fertility of resource. everett. and all her husbandry doth lie on heaps corrupting in its own fertility. thy very weeds are beautiful; thy waste more rich than other climes' fertility.fertility n |
