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 Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen

The unproductiveness of their labours was only too apparent.

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century by D'Anvers, N.

Juvenal complains bitterly of the unproductiveness of honest toil in literature and the professions.

From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Miller, Frank Justus

The secret of this unproductiveness lies perhaps in a certain tendency to analyze and philosophize away every strong emotion that should lead to action.

From Without Dogma by Sienkiewicz, Henryk