unfruitfulness

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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

Again, too much very young and too much old wood are causes of unfruitfulness.

From Success with Small Fruits by Roe, Edward Payson

The desire for children is natural both to men and women, and in the home, as in universal nature, unfruitfulness and barrenness are a great misfortune.

From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Stall, Sylvanus

Three years of unfruitfulness through almost the whole of Europe had been followed by a commercial crisis, which threatened the town with entire destruction. 

From A Woman's Journey Round the World by Pfeiffer, Ida

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