sterility

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ste=ril=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

sterility, n. [L. sterilitas: cf. F. stérilité.].

•  The quality or condition of being sterile.  [1913 Webster]
•  Quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the state of being free from germs or spores.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

sterility

aridity, asepsis, barrenness, birth control, bloodlessness, characterlessness, cleanliness, cleanly habits, cleanness, colorlessness, contraception, daintiness, deadness, dearth, dismalness, dragginess, dreariness, dry womb, dryness, dullness, dustiness, effeteness, emptiness, etiolation, family planning, famine, fastidiousness, flatness, freshness, heaviness, hollowness, hospital cleanliness, immaculacy, immaculateness, impotence, inanity, ineffectualness, inexcitability, infecundity, infertility, insipidity, insipidness, jejunity, leadenness, lifelessness, lowness of spirit, paleness, pallor, planned parenthood, pointlessness, pokiness, ponderousness, pureness, purity, slowness, solemnity, spiritlessness, spotlessness, stainlessness, sterileness, stiffness, stodginess, stuffiness, superficiality, tastelessness, tediousness, tidiness, unfertileness, unfruitfulness, uninterestingness, unliveliness, unproductiveness, unspottedness, vapidity, vapidness, whiteness, withered loins, woodenness

ROGET THESAURUS

sterility

Unproductiveness

N unproductiveness, infertility, sterility, infecundity, masturbation, impotence, unprofitableness, waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness, unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund, sine prole, fallow, teemless, issueless, fruitless, unprofitable, null and void, of no effect.