barrenness
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8.1
- noun
- /ˈbɛrənəs/
:
infertilidad
- Despite her wishes to have a family, she faced the painful reality of barrenness.
- cure barrenness
Examples
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There are provisions for the orphans, widows, and widowers, marital dislocations, health-related problems, like barrenness, and any other social-related problems.
Academic text (2011) -
That's why laws regarding marriage had to do with the inheritance and the funding of the children, and why barrenness was a cause for divorce.
Blog text (16) -
Barrenness had kept Marian slim, even youthful, and he had been glad.
Fiction book (2002) -
If not handled properly, it can cause barrenness, sterility, miscarriage, blindness, illness, and even death.
Academic text (1994) -
Yet another function of traditional healers is to cure infertility or barrenness (idip ada).
Academic text (1999) -
He treats barrenness as well as other health problems for both African Americans and whites, but does not charge for his services; rather, he suggests donations to the museum's endowment.
Academic text (2006) -
Both female healers and male physicians wrote at length about the causes and cures of barrenness, and ministers attempted to comfort barren women, but it was difficult to avoid the conclusion that barrenness was a sign of God's disfavor.
Academic text (1994) -
In ancient societies, a woman's barrenness often led to social stigma and isolation.
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After enduring years of barrenness, she sought medical advice to explore her options.
Synonyms
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5.7
Not being able to have a baby
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7.0
Not able to have children
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5.2
A situation where a person or couple has no children
Unable to produce young, for example babies or fruit
A state of not producing useful things like crops or ideas
Antonyms
How Fertile
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3.7
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8.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Barrenness comes from older words that meant 'empty' or 'without fruit', and a helpful way to remember it is to think of bare soil that cannot grow new life. So barrenness of a person means the inability to have children.