sterility

English

Etymology

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

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Noun

sterility (usually uncountable, plural sterilities)

1. The state or quality of being sterile.

Synonyms

• sterileness

Derived terms

• self-sterility

Translations

state of being sterile

Bulgarian: безплодие (bg) n (bezplodie), стерилитет m (sterilitet) Catalan: esterilitat (ca) f Czech: neplodnost (cs) f Dutch: steriliteit (nl) f Esperanto: senfrukteco, sterileco Galician: esterilidade (gl) f German: Sterilität (de) f Greek: αγονία (el) f (agonía) Ancient: ἀγονία f (agonía) Interlingua: sterilitate Italian: sterilità (it) f Old English: unwæstmbǣrnes f Ottoman Turkish: قیصیرلق (kısırlık) Polish: bezpłodność (pl) f Portuguese: esterilidade f Spanish: esterilidad f Swahili: ugumba Turkish: kısırlık (tr)