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UNPRODUCTIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unproductiveness mean? 

UNPRODUCTIVENESS (noun)
  The noun UNPRODUCTIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of lacking the power to produceplay

  Familiarity information: UNPRODUCTIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNPRODUCTIVENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of lacking the power to produce

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

aridity; barrenness; fruitlessness (the quality of yielding nothing of value)

Antonym:

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

Derivation:

unproductive (not producing desired results)

unproductive (not producing or capable of producing)


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