Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fruitfulness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fruitful \Fruit"ful\, a.
Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results;
prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree,
or season, or soil; a fruitful wife. -- {Fruit"ful*ly}, adv.
-- {Fruit"ful*ness}, n.
Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
--Gen. i. 28.
[Nature] By disburdening grows More fruitful. --Milton.
The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy. --Addison.
Syn: Fertile; prolific; productive; fecund; plentiful; rich;
abundant; plenteous. See {Fertile}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fruitfulness
n 1: the quality of something that causes or assists healthy
growth [syn: {fecundity}] [ant: {fruitlessness}]
2: the intellectual fruitfulness of a creative imagination
[syn: {fecundity}]
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