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Sterility

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being sterile. uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    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 wordnet
  3. 3
    (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms wordnet

Etymology

From sterile + -ity, from Middle French stérilité, from Latin sterilitas.

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