unfruitfulness

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Ster′iliser, anything which sterilises; Steril′ity, quality of being sterile: unfruitfulness, barrenness, in regard to reproduction.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

It was a waste place of terrible unfruitfulness.

From The Odds And Other Stories by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

He saw well the illusoriness and unfruitfulness of such a universe as Spinoza dreamed.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various

She laid bare the shallowness of their thoughts, the selfishness of their purposes, and the spiritual unfruitfulness of their teachings.

From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by Cooke, George Willis

Nothing in divine or human ordinances seemed hidden from him; he even foresaw the unfruitfulness of the land many years before it came.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max