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

Kentish Cob definitely appears to transmit unproductiveness when crossed with Rush, Barcelona, and Cosford.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 by Northern Nut Growers Association

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

The good qualities of the variety are offset by comparative unproductiveness and unevenness in ripening.

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

Like seasons come round, and, like productiveness or unproductiveness, healthy or epidemic diatheses, attend them.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden