Hypertext Webster Gateway: "barrenness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Barrenness \Bar"ren*ness\, n.
The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness.
A total barrenness of invention. --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
barrenness
n 1: the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or
being unable to have children
2: a condition yielding nothing of value [syn: {fruitlessness},
{aridity}] [ant: {fruitfulness}]
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