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FRUITFULNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
Synonyms:
fecundity; fruitfulness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("fruitfulness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fruitfulness"):
fertility; prolificacy; rankness; richness (the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth)
productiveness; productivity (the quality of being productive or having the power to produce)
Antonym:
fruitlessness (the quality of yielding nothing of value)
Derivation:
fruitful (productive or conducive to producing in abundance)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The intellectual productivity of a creative imagination
Synonyms:
fecundity; fruitfulness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("fruitfulness" is a kind of...):
creative thinking; creativeness; creativity (the ability to create)
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