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

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

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

I grew very dissatisfied with the unproductiveness of my daily routine, though, and told Grant I must start writing again.

From Four and Twenty Beds by Vogel, Nancy

Have tried and discarded Red Astrachan and Rambo for unproductiveness; White Winter Pearmain as unproductive, short-lived, and a poor seller.

From The Apple by Various