FECUNDITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fecundity mean? 

• FECUNDITY (noun)
  The noun FECUNDITY has 3 senses:

1. the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination

2. the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring

3. the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth

  Familiarity information: FECUNDITY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FECUNDITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The intellectual productivity of a creative imagination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

fecundity; fruitfulness

Hypernyms ("fecundity" is a kind of...):

creative thinking; creativeness; creativity (the ability to create)

Derivation:

fecund (intellectually productive)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

fecundity; fertility

Hypernyms ("fecundity" is a kind of...):

physical condition; physiological condition; physiological state (the condition or state of the body or bodily functions)

Attribute:

fertile (capable of reproducing)

infertile; sterile; unfertile (incapable of reproducing)

Derivation:

fecund (capable of producing offspring or vegetation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fecundity; fruitfulness

Hypernyms ("fecundity" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fecundity"):

fertility; prolificacy; rankness; richness (the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth)

productiveness; productivity (the quality of being productive or having the power to produce)

 Context examples 

Inherited overproduction of free radicals, high levels of lipid peroxidation, protein oxidation, DNA rearrangements, morbid conditions mimicking human degenerative diseases: cataract, emphysema, cardiomyopathy, carcinogenesis; short life-span and low fecundity.

(OXYS, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived from a cross between a white cornish male and a barred rock female in the 1930s, modern broilers are an F2 hybrid of broiler breeds characterized by high fecundity and fast growth.

(Broiler Chicken, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived from a cross between a white cornish male and a barred rock female in the 1930s, modern broiler chickens are an F2 hybrid of broiler breeds characterized by high fecundity and fast growth.

(Broiler Chicken, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)