FERTILITY
Dictionary entry overview: What does fertility mean?
• FERTILITY (noun)
The noun FERTILITY has 3 senses:
1. the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
2. the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
3. the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth
Familiarity information: FERTILITY used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• FERTILITY (noun)
Meaning:
The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
birth rate; birthrate; fertility; fertility rate; natality
Hypernyms ("fertility" is a kind of...):
rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)
Meaning:
The state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
fertility; fecundity
Hypernyms ("fertility" 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)
Antonym:
infertility (the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate)
Meaning:
The property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
prolificacy; rankness; fertility; richness
Context examples:
he praised the richness of the soil / weeds lovely in their rankness
Hypernyms ("fertility" is a kind of...):
fecundity; fruitfulness (the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth)
