Home › Words › F › fertilenessfertilenessfertileness means the state or characteristic of being fertile.EtymologyFrom fertile + -ness.nounThe state or characteristic of being fertile.e.g.“... and he, according to the fertileness of the Italian wit, did not only afford us the demonstration of his practice, but sought to enrich our minds.” — c. 1583, Sir Philip Sidney, “An Apologie for Poetrie”, in A Defence of Poesie and Poems:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.feracity 78% match — The state of being feracious, or fruitful. vs fertileness →infertileness 73% match — The quality of being infertile. vs fertileness →fertilizability 71% match — The condition of being, or the extent to which something is fertilizable vs fertileness →fruitness 68% match — The quality of being fruit. vs fertileness →fecund 66% match — Highly fertile; able to produce offspring. vs fertileness →fertilizable 66% match — Capable of being fertilized. vs fertileness →virility 65% match — The state of being virile. vs fertileness →fetidity 65% match — The quality of being fetid. vs fertileness →