Productivity vs Fecundity - What's the difference?
productivity | fecundity |
the state of being productive, fertile or efficient
the rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers
the rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land
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.
As nouns the difference between productivity and fecundity
is that productivity is the state of being productive, fertile or efficient while fecundity is ability to produce offspring.productivity
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(wikipedia productivity) (productivities)Synonyms
* productiveness (much less common)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.
