Meanings
plural fruitfulnesses
- uncountableusuallyThe state or quality of being fruitful; exuberant abundance.
1 more example
Fir-cones and snakes from their very forms were emblems of male fertility; snakes, too, from their habit of gliding out of their own skins with renewed brightness and color were suggestive of resurrection and re-vivification; pigs and sows by their exceeding fruitfulness would in their hour of sacrifice remind old mother Earth of what was expected from her!
1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 73Synonyms: productiveness, fertility, fecundity
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state or quality of being fruitful; exuberant abundance.
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
nounthe intellectual productivity of a creative imagination
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian плодовитост, плодотворност
- плодовитост (plodovitost)the state or quality of being fruitful
- плодотворност (plodotvornost)the state or quality of being fruitful
Finnish hedelmällisyys
- hedelmällisyysthe state or quality of being fruitful
Italian fruttuosità, fecondità
- fruttuositàthe state or quality of being fruitful
- feconditàthe state or quality of being fruitful
- fertilitàthe state or quality of being fruitful
Latvian rasma, auglīgums
- rasmathe state or quality of being fruitful
- auglīgumsthe state or quality of being fruitful
- auglībathe state or quality of being fruitful
- ražībathe state or quality of being fruitful
- ražīgumsthe state or quality of being fruitful
Polish owocność
- owocnośćthe state or quality of being fruitful
Romanian rodnicie, fertilitate
- rodniciethe state or quality of being fruitful
- fertilitatethe state or quality of being fruitful
- fecunditatethe state or quality of being fruitful
Russian плодотво́рность, плодоро́дие
- плодотво́рность (plodotvórnostʹ)the state or quality of being fruitful
- плодоро́дие (plodoródije)the state or quality of being fruitful
Cite this entry
fruitfulness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fruitfulness
“fruitfulness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fruitfulness. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fruitfulness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fruitfulness.
Source: fruitfulness on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.