FERTILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fertility mean? 

• FERTILITY (noun)
  The noun FERTILITY has 3 senses:

1. the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year

2. the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring

3. the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth

  Familiarity information: FERTILITY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FERTILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

birth rate; birthrate; fertility; fertility rate; natality

Hypernyms ("fertility" is a kind of...):

rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

fecundity; fertility

Hypernyms ("fertility" is a kind of...):

physical condition; physiological condition; physiological state (the condition or state of the body or bodily functions)

Attribute:

fertile (capable of reproducing)

infertile; sterile; unfertile (incapable of reproducing)

Antonym:

infertility (the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate)

Derivation:

fertile (capable of reproducing)

fertile (bearing in abundance especially offspring)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fertility; prolificacy; rankness; richness

Context example:

weeds lovely in their rankness

Hypernyms ("fertility" is a kind of...):

fecundity; fruitfulness (the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth)

Derivation:

fertile (marked by great fruitfulness)

 Context examples 

Embryo freezing is a type of fertility preservation.

(Embryo freezing, NCI Dictionary)

There are also treatments to improve fertility in women with endometriosis.

(Endometriosis, NIH)

Selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM) GTx-024 is designed to work like testosterone, thus promoting and/or maintaining libido, fertility, prostate growth, and muscle growth and strength.

(Enobosarm, NCI Thesaurus)

Embryo cryopreservation is a type of fertility preservation.

(Embryo cryopreservation, NCI Dictionary)

Egg freezing is being studied as a type of fertility preservation.

(Egg freezing, NCI Dictionary)

I dwelt long upon the fertility of our soil, and the temperature of our climate.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Egg cryopreservation is being studied as a type of fertility preservation.

(Egg cryopreservation, NCI Dictionary)

There are tests that may tell if you have fertility problems.

(Female Infertility, Dept. of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health)

A subject domain utilized for the submission of information encompassing and representing data, vocabulary or records related to fertility.

(Fertility Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

Ovarian shielding is a type of fertility preservation.

(Ovarian shielding, NCI Dictionary)