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Fruition vs Fecund - What's the difference?

fruition | fecund |

As a noun fruition

is the fulfillment of something worked for.

As an adjective fecund is

highly fertile; able to produce offspring.

fruition

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • The fulfillment of something worked for.
  • The enjoyment derived from a possession.

    • Etymology 2

    Erroneously from (fruit) (though now standard usage)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The condition of bearing fruit.

    • fecund

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (qualifier)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (formal) Highly fertile; able to produce offspring.
  • * 2001 , Massimo Livi Bacci, A Concise History of World Population? , page 9
    • The number of children per woman depends, as has been said, on biological and social factors which determine: (1) the frequency of births during a woman's fecund' period, and (2) the portion of the ' fecund period--between puberty and menopause--effectively utilized for reproduction.
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  • (figuratively) Leading to new ideas or innovation.
  • * 1906 , , "The Basis of Pragmatism in the Normative Sciences", in The Essential Pierce: Selected Philosophical Writings? , volume II, page 373
    • This idea of Aristotle's has proved marvellously fecund ; and in truth it is the only idea covering quite the whole area of cenoscopy that has shown any marked uberosity.

    Synonyms

    * (highly fertile) fertile * (leading to new ideas or innovation) fertile, productive, prolific

    Related terms

    * fecundity