FECUNDITY

 Dictionary entry overview: What does fecundity mean? 

• FECUNDITY (noun)
  The noun FECUNDITY has 3 senses:

1. the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination
2. the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
3. the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth

  Familiarity information: FECUNDITY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FECUNDITY (noun)

Meaning:

The intellectual productivity of a creative imagination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

fecundity; fruitfulness

Hypernyms ("fecundity" is a kind of...):

creative thinking; creativeness; creativity (the ability to create)

Meaning:

The state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

fecundity; fertility

Hypernyms ("fecundity" is a kind of...):

physiological condition; physiological state (the state of the body or bodily functions)

Attribute:

fertile (capable of reproducing)

infertile; sterile; unfertile (incapable of reproducing)

Meaning:

The quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fruitfulness; fecundity

Hypernyms ("fecundity" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fecundity"):

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)