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Definition of Sterility
1. Noun. (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms.
Generic synonyms: Sanitariness
Derivative terms: Antiseptic, Aseptic, Sterile, Sterile
2. Noun. The state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate.
Generic synonyms: Physical Condition, Physiological Condition, Physiological State
Specialized synonyms: Impotence, Impotency, Barrenness, Cacogenesis, Dysgenesis
Antonyms: Fertility
Derivative terms: Infertile, Sterile
Definition of Sterility
1. n. The quality or condition of being sterile.
Definition of Sterility
1. Noun. The state or quality of being sterile. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sterility
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sterility
Literary usage of Sterility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1900)
"Distinction between the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids— sterility
various in degree, not universal, affected by close interbreeding, ..."
2. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin (1878)
"Distinction between the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids — sterility
various in degree, not universal, affected by close interbreeding, ..."
3. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1902)
"THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES CHAPTER IX HYBRIDISM Distinction between the sterility of
first crosses and of hybrids—sterility various in degree, not universal, ..."
4. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1914)
"A STUDY OF SEMI-sterility Hybrids with Half their Pollen and Ovules Sterile—Semi-sterility
Inherited in Half of the Second Generation—Progeny of Fertile ..."
5. Legal Medicine by Charles Meymott Tidy (1884)
"Given the absence of spermatozoa, sterility may be assumed. ... And this of itself
may be one cause of sterility, in the diagnosis of which the microscope ..."
6. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1912)
"Varieties of sterility. sterility may be primary or acquired, absolute or relative.
Primary sterility may be defined as the variety in which congenital ..."
7. Montaigne by Tetel, Marcel (1903)
"sterility. Cause and Treatment. A large number of possible causes of ... The great
majority of cases of sterility are dependent upon slight causes. (a. ..."
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