fertility Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
    birthrate; birth rate; fertility rate; natality.
  2. noun the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
    fecundity.
  3. noun the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth
    rankness; prolificacy; richness.
    • he praised the richness of the soil
    • weeds lovely in their rankness

WordNet

Fer*til"i*ty noun
Etymology
L. fertilitas: cf. F. fertilité.
Definitions
  1. The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination. "fertility of resource." E. Everett.
    And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps Corrupting in its own fertility. Shak.
    Thy very weeds are beautiful; thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility. Byron.

Webster 1913