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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Fertility

/fẽrt-ĭl'-ət-ē/ · Fer·til·i·ty · IPA /fɝˈtɪləti/
01 n. The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile inven…
  1. 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.
    “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.