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

This fact accounts for the unproductiveness of certain varieties of strawberries unless mixed with plants of some other variety, it being well known to nursery-men that some varieties produce only the female parts of flowers.

From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey

Perhaps he would have followed out the suggestion, but for the intervention of so many years of unproductiveness in the height of his powers, and his subsequent too early death.

From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons

I know the sly cabals of my much-esteemed friends, who seize every opportunity to parade my unproductiveness before my eyes.

From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. by Heyse, Paul

The defects which have kept Brilliant from becoming one of the standard commercial sorts are: marked susceptibility to fungi, variability in size of cluster, unevenness in ripening and unproductiveness.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.