Fecundity

Definitions: Fecundity

Fecundity

Noun

1. The intellectual fruitfulness 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.

Date "fecundity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Avian	Rate at which an individual produces offspring, usually expressed only for females (Ricklefs 1979:870). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Fecundity

Synonyms: fertility (n), fruitfulness (n). (additional references)

Antonyms: fruitlessness (n), sterility (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Productiveness	Noun: productiveness; Adjective: fecundity, fertility, luxuriance, uberty.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Fecundity

English words defined with "fecundity": Freya, Freyja ♦ Infecundity ♦ Superfecundity ♦ torrential. (references)

Specialty definitions using "fecundity": Demographic parameters ♦ Genetic drift ♦ Hulda ♦ Rice thrown after a Bride ♦ Stable age distribution. (references)

Etymologies containing "fecundity": fetus. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The Seven Matrices: The Forest of Fecundity (reference) Fecundity Figures (reference) Fecundity, infertility, and reproductive health in the United States, 1982 (reference) Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian Perspective (reference) Natality and fecundity : a contribution to national demography (reference) (more book examples)
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"Fecundity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fecundity" is used about 74 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	74	38,813

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "fecundity": anti-fecundity, sub-fecundity.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "fecundity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		prodhimtari (bearing, efficiency, productivity, prolificacy), pjellori (fertility, prolificacy). (various references)

Arabic		‏خصوبة (enrichment, fat of the land, fertility, productivity, richness). (various references)

Bulgarian		плодородие (exuberance, fertility, fruitiness, heart, productiveness, productivity), плодовитост (fertility, pregnancy, productiveness, productivity, prolificacy). (various references)

Chinese		肥沃 (Fertile). (various references)

Czech		úrodnost (fertility, richness). (various references)

Danish		frugtbarhed (fertility, prolificacy, reproductive ability, reproductive capacity), befrugtningsevne. (various references)

Dutch		fecunditeit, vruchtbaarheid (fertility, prolificacy). (various references)

Finnish		fertiliteetti, fekunditeetti, tiineyttämiskyky, lisääntymiskyky (reproductive ability, reproductive capacity), jälkeläistuotto, hedelmällisyys (fertility, fruitfulness, prolificacy). (various references)

French		fécondité (fertility). (various references)

German		Fruchtbarkeit (fatness, fertility, fruitfulness, productivity, proliferation, prolificacy, prolificness, reproductiveness, richness, usefulness). (various references)

Greek		γονιμότητα (fertility, prolificacy, prolificness). (various references)

Hebrew		פוריות (fertility, fruitfulness, productivity, reproductivity), פריון (fertility, fruitfulness, productivity), כוח �"תעברות. (various references)

Hungarian		termékenység (fatness, fertility, fruitfulness, fruitiness, productivity, prolificacy, prolification). (various references)

Italian		fecondit� (fertility). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"��"�性 (productivity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		せいさ�"せい (productivity). (various references)

Manx		messoilid (fruitfulness). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecundityfay

Portuguese		fertilidade (fertility, luxuriance, products, richness), fecundidade (federal, fertility, pregnancy, productivity, prolix), fecundação (fertilisation, fertilization, fertilize, impresario). (various references)

Romanian		fertilitate (fatness, fertility, pregnancy, productiveness, richness), fecunditate (fertility, fruitfulness), rodnicie (fertility, fruitfulness, fruition). (various references)

Russian		плодородие (fertility, fruitfulness, rankness, richness), плодовитость (prolificacy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		plodnost (fertility, fruitfulness, pregnancy, prolificacy). (various references)

Spanish		fecundidad (fertileness, fertility, fruitfulness, prolificness). (various references)

Swedish		fruktbarhet (fertility, fruitfulness, productivity). (various references)

Thai		การผลิ�"อกออกผลเป็นจำนวนมาก. (various references)

Turkish		verimlilik (fertility, fruitfulness, productivity, prolificacy, prolificness), doğurtkanlık. (various references)

Ukranian		родючість (fertileness, fertility, fruitfulness, productiveness, productivity, prolificacy, rankness, richness), плодотворність (fruitfulness), плодовитість. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự mắn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Fecundity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fercundity, feuduty, ficundity. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "fecundity" (pronounced 'Fe*cun"di*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-f-i-n-t-u-y"
	-2 letters: defunct.
	-3 letters: dunite, fecund, fundic, induce, induct, infect, nicety, nudity, united, untidy, untied.
	-4 letters: centu, cited, cutey, cutie, cutin, deify, deity, dicey, dicty, dunce, edict, edify, educt, feint, fetid, fiend, fined, fundi, indue, nifty, nudie, teind, tined, tuned, tunic, tyned, unfed, unfit, unify, unite, unity, untie, yince.
	-5 letters: cedi, cent, cine, cite, city, cued.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-f-i-n-t-u-y"
	+2 letters: countryfied.
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