Meanings
noununfruitfulness (uncountable)
- uncountablethe state or property of being unfruitful; fruitlessness, barrenness
Athena … And be ye no longer indignant, launch not your grievous wrath upon this land, nor visit it with unfruitfulness by discharging drops whose wasting influence will devour the seed.
1926, Herbert Weir Smyth, “Eumenides”, in Aeschylus, with an English translation, volume II, page 349
Origin
Translations
Ancient Greek ἀκαρπία
- ἀκαρπία (akarpía)state or property of being unfruitful
Romanian nerodnicie, sterilitate
- nerodniciestate or property of being unfruitful
- sterilitatestate or property of being unfruitful
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