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fruitfulness

Fruitfulness is a state of being extremely productive or prolific. Your five-year-old cousin's fruitfulness as an artist means that she goes through a box of crayons every single week.

An apple orchard's fruitfulness literally results in a lot of fruit — the more fruitful it is, the more apples it produces. There are other, more figurative types of fruitfulness too. If your aunt and uncle have a huge family, with 12 kids, people might remark on their fruitfulness. And if a poet goes through a period of creating dozens and dozens of poems, that's a kind of creative fruitfulness.

Definitions of fruitfulness
  1. noun
    the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
    synonyms: fecundity
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    antonyms:
    fruitlessness
    the quality of yielding nothing of value
    types:
    fertility, prolificacy, rankness, richness
    the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth
    productiveness, productivity
    the quality of being productive or having the power to produce
    type of:
    quality
    an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
  2. noun
    the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination
    synonyms: fecundity
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    type of:
    creative thinking, creativeness, creativity
    the ability to create
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