barrenness
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Barrenness and artificiality are the two traits of this society, the more marked because it is more complete, and, in this one, pushed to extreme, because it has attained to supreme refinement.
From The Ancient Regime by Durand, John
Barrenness itself conduces to a certain virility of taste; man, indeed, if I may say so, is "the barren animal."
From Beyond Good and Evil by Zimmern, Helen
They are said to be very wholesome for all sorts of Maladies, particularly for the Gravel, and for the Barrenness of Women.
In the Last Essays of Elia there is one by Charles Lamb entitled Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty in the Production of Modern Art.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James
After they have had several Children, they grow strangely out of Shape in their Bodies; As for Barrenness, I never knew any of their Women, that have not Children when marry'd.