fruitfulness

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fruitfulness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Fruitful \Fruit"ful\, a.
     Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results;
     prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree,
     or season, or soil; a fruitful wife. -- Fruit"ful*ly, adv.
     -- Fruit"ful*ness, n.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
                                                    --Gen. i. 28.
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           [Nature] By disburdening grows
           More fruitful.                           --Milton.
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           The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy. --Addison.
  
     Syn: Fertile; prolific; productive; fecund; plentiful; rich;
          abundant; plenteous. See Fertile.
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fruitfulness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  fruitfulness
      n 1: the quality of something that causes or assists healthy
           growth [syn: fruitfulness, fecundity] [ant: aridity,
           barrenness, fruitlessness]
      2: the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination [syn:
         fecundity, fruitfulness]