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barrenness
[bar-uhn] 
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barrenness
[bar-uhn]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sterility |
| Synonyms: | childlessness, fruitlessness, impotence, infecundity, infertility, unfruitfulness, unproductiveness |
| Antonyms: | fecundity, fertility, fruitfulness |
| Main Entry: | poverty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want; extreme need, often financial |
| Synonyms: | abjection, aridity, bankruptcy, barrenness, beggary, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, exiguity, famine, hardship, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insolvency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessitousness, necessity, pass, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, straits, underdevelopment, vacancy |
| Antonyms: | abundance, affluence, luxury, richness, wealth |
| Main Entry: | impotence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sterility |
| Synonyms: | barrenness, erectile dysfunction, infecundity, infertility, unproductiveness |
| Notes: | impotence is the male's inability to copulate or get an erection; sterility is the inability of either a male or female to procreate |
| Main Entry: | infertility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unproductiveness |
| Synonyms: | barrenness, fruitless, impotence, sterile |
| Main Entry: | sterility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infertility |
| Synonyms: | barrenness, fecundity, fruitlessness |
| Main Entry: | penury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poverty |
| Synonyms: | barrenness, dearth, destitution, indigence, insufficiency, need, privation, scantiness |
| Antonyms: | affluence, wealth |
| Main Entry: | blankness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emptiness |
| Synonyms: | barrenness, blank, desolation, gap, hollowness, nothingness, vacancy, vacuity, vacuousness, vacuum, void |
| Main Entry: | fruitlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | futility |
| Synonyms: | aridity, aridness, barrenness, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, unproductiveness, unprofitableness, uselessness, vainness, vanity |
| Main Entry: | hollowness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emptiness |
| Synonyms: | barrenness, blank, blankness, chasm, depletedness, desertedness, desolation, destitution, exhaustion, gap, inanition, inanity, vacancy, vaccum, vacuity, vacuousness, vacuum, void, waste |
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