unproductiveness
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Others suggest that after five years of infirmity, unproductiveness and cramped quarters the thought of having a new play produced might amount to a rebirth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their intellectual poverty condemns them to unproductiveness; nevertheless, being nearer than the others to the imaginative type, they bring forth childish or chimerical productions.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron
Like seasons come round, and, like productiveness or unproductiveness, healthy or epidemic diatheses, attend them.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler
Kentish Cob definitely appears to transmit unproductiveness when crossed with Rush, Barcelona, and Cosford.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 by Northern Nut Growers Association
Its end was as strange as its constitution; but here it comes under our notice as a singular exemplification of the unproductiveness, as I may call it, of the Turkish intellect.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by John Henry Newman
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