FRUITFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fruitfulness mean? 

• FRUITFULNESS (noun)
  The noun FRUITFULNESS has 2 senses:

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

2. the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination

  Familiarity information: FRUITFULNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRUITFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fecundity; fruitfulness

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

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

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

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)

Antonym:

fruitlessness (the quality of yielding nothing of value)

Derivation:

fruitful (productive or conducive to producing in abundance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The intellectual productivity of a creative imagination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

fecundity; fruitfulness

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

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