Fecundity vs Infecundity - What's the difference?
fecundity | infecundity |
Ability to produce offspring.
* 2006 , , “Neil Gaiman on Terry Pratchett” in: Good Omens , Corgi, p. 410
Ability to cause growth.
Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
Rate of production of young by a female.
Lack of fecundity or fruitfulness; barrenness; sterility; unproductiveness.
As nouns the difference between fecundity and infecundity
is that fecundity is ability to produce offspring while infecundity is lack of fecundity or fruitfulness; barrenness; sterility; unproductiveness.fecundity
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* (qualifier)Noun
(en-noun)- In the early days the reviewers compared him to the late Douglas Adams, but then Terry went on to write books as enthusiastically as Douglas avoided writing them, and now, if there is any comparison to be made of anything from the formal rules of a Pratchett novel to the sheer prolific fecundity of the man, it might be to P. G. Wodehouse.
