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Definition of Fruitfulness
1. Noun. The quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth.
Generic synonyms: Quality
Specialized synonyms: Fertility, Prolificacy, Rankness, Richness, Productiveness, Productivity
Derivative terms: Fruitful
Antonyms: Fruitlessness
2. Noun. The intellectual productivity of a creative imagination.
Generic synonyms: Creative Thinking, Creativeness, Creativity
Derivative terms: Fecund
Definition of Fruitfulness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being fruitful; productiveness; fertility; fecundity; exuberant abundance. ¹
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Definition of Fruitfulness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fruitfulness
Literary usage of Fruitfulness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Commentary on the Psalms: From Primitive and Mediaeval Writers and from by John Mason Neale, Richard Frederick Littledale (1868)
"Mine, ho saith, is fruitfulness, and this fruitfulness is the strength of my Head.
For my Head is CHRIST. And whence is fruit- fulness the strength of Him ? ..."
2. Culture of the Citrus in California by Byron Martin Lelong, California State Board of Horticulture (1902)
"PERIOD OF fruitfulness. There seems to be quite prevalent a belief or impression
that the period of profitable production of the Washington Navel orange ..."
3. The Pruning-book: A Monograph of the Pruning and Training of Plants as by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1898)
"Heading-in induces fruitfulness by checking exuberant growth and by encouraging
the formation of short lateral growths. In Section 9 we have discussed ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"But the fruitfulness of science and the constant verifications of its predictions
are incompatible with such an hypothesis. ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"The frustum of a pyramid is also what remains, after the top is cut off by a
plane parallel to its base. uting to diem the greatest fruitfulness. ..."
6. An Essay on the Principle of Population, Or, A View of Its Past and Present by Thomas Robert Malthus (1809)
"On the fruitfulness of Marriages. IT would be extremely desirable to be able to
deduce from the rate of increase, the actual population, and the registers ..."