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BARRENNESS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of yielding nothing of valueplay

Synonyms:

aridity; barrenness; fruitlessness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("barrenness" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "barrenness"):

poorness (less than adequate)

unproductiveness (the quality of lacking the power to produce)

Derivation:

barren (providing no shelter or sustenance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have childrenplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("barrenness" is a kind of...):

infertility; sterility (the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate)

Derivation:

barren (not bearing offspring)

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