STERILITY, noun [Latin] 1. Barrenness; unproductiveness; unfruitfulness; the quality or state of producing little or nothing; as the sterility of land or soil. 2. Barrenness; unfruitfulness; the state of not producing young; as of animals. 3. Barrenness of ideas or sentiments, as in writings. 4. Want of fertility or the power of producing sentiment; as the sterility of an author or of his mind.
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