barrenness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children
  2. noun the quality of yielding nothing of value
    fruitlessness; aridity.

WordNet


Bar"ren*ness noun
Definitions
  1. The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness.
    A total barrenness of invention. Dryden.

Webster 1913