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

And tardiness was subject to official punishments as a form of unproductiveness.

From Waste Not, Want by Dryfoos, Dave

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 Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen

I know that the unproductiveness of the estate weighs on him.

From Fruitfulness by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

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