Fruitfulness

Definition: Fruitfulness

Fruitfulness

Noun

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

2. The intellectual fruitfulness of a creative imagination.

Date "fruitfulness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)

Synonym: Fruitfulness

Synonym: fecundity (n). (additional references)

Antonym: fruitlessness (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Fruitfulness

English words defined with "fruitfulness": fat, fecundity, fertile ♦ Infecundity ♦ productive, Prolificness ♦ rich ♦ Uberty. (references)

Specialty definitions using "fruitfulness": Orange Blossoms Worn at Weddings. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	52 Bible Talks for Fun & Fruitfulness (reference) Fruitfulness (reference) Love and fruitfulness in the Bible (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Friedrich Nietzsche	Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
Keats	Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Fruitfulness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fruitfulness" is used about 24 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%	24	71,196

Language		Translations for "fruitfulness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		frytëzim (fructification, fruitiness), produktivitet. (various references)

Arabic		‏إخصاب (fertilization), ‏إثمار (fruitage, fruition). (various references)

Bulgarian		плодородност (fertility), плодотворност. (various references)

Czech		plodnost (fertility, impregnability, prolificacy). (various references)

Finnish		hedelmällisyys (fertility). (various references)

French		fertilité, fécondité (fruition), profit, caractère fructueux. (various references)

German		fruchtbarkeit (fatness, fecundity, fertility, productivity, proliferation, prolificness, reproductiveness, richness, usefulness). (various references)

Greek		ευκαρπία. (various references)

Hebrew		פוריות (fecundity, fertility, productivity, reproductivity), פריון (fecundity, fertility, productivity), פרי�". (various references)

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

Japanese Kanji		豊�' (fertility), 豊穰 (fertility, productiveness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ほうじょう (abbot's chamber, abundant crop, certificate of merit, chief priest, copybook printed from the works of old masters of calligraphy, fertility, good harvest, honorable mention, productiveness, square jo, your good wishes, your kind intentions). (various references)

Manx		sliughtoilid, messoilid (fecundity). (various references)

Pig Latin		uitfulnessfray

Romanian		fecunditate (fecundity, fertility), rodnicie (fecundity, fertility, fruition). (various references)

Russian		плодородие (fecundity, fertility, rankness, richness), плодоносность. (various references)

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

Spanish		fertilidad (fertility, rankness, richness), fecundidad (fecundity, fertileness, fertility, prolificness), utilidad (avail, goods, helpfulness, profitableness, purpose, purposefulness, service, serviceability, serviceableness, use, usefulness, utility), productividad (productiveness, productivity, throwput, yield). (various references)

Swedish		fruktsamhet (fecundity, fertility, prolificacy), fruktbarhet (fecundity, fertility, productivity), produktivitet (fecundity, productivity), bördighet (fertility). (various references)

Turkish		verimlilik (fecundity, fertility, productivity, prolificacy, prolificness), bereket (abundance, blessing, copiousness, cornucopia, fertility, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, profusion, prolificacy, prolificness, richness). (various references)

Ukrainian		родючість (fecundity, fertileness, fertility, productiveness, productivity, prolificacy, rankness, richness), плодотворність (fecundity), плодоносність. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự có nhiều quả sự sinh sản nhiều sự có kết quả sự có lợi. (various references)

Welsh		ffrwythlondeb (fertility). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	fertilitas, fertilitatis, ubertate, ubertatem, ubertatis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fruitfulness": fruitfulnesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "fruitfulness": unfruitfulness. (additional references)
	Words containing "fruitfulness": unfruitfulnesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-f-f-i-l-n-r-s-s-t-u-u"
	-2 letters: fitfulness, snuffliest.
	-3 letters: fruitless, frustules, insulters, ruffliest, siffleurs, snifflers, snuffiest, snufflers, snufflier, sulfurets, unrestful, unruliest.
	-4 letters: fistfuls, flusters, fruitful, frustule, infusers, insulter, restuffs, riftless, siffleur, sniffers, sniffler, sniffles, snifters, snuffers, snuffier, snuffler, snuffles, stiffens, stiflers, stuffers, stuffier, sulfites, sulfuret, surfeits, surfiest, surliest, truffles, turfless, utensils.
	-5 letters: enlists, estrins, filters, finless, fissure, fistful, fitness, fluster.
	Words containing the letters "e-f-f-i-l-n-r-s-s-t-u-u"
	+2 letters: fruitfulnesses, unfruitfulness.
	+4 letters: unfruitfulnesses.
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