non-productivenessn.
/ˌnɒnprəˈdʌktᵻvnᵻs/, U.S. /ˌnɑnprəˈdəktɪvnᵻs/ The fact or condition of not being productive.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > unproductiveness > [noun]
famine1362
barrentya1382
poverty?1440
infertility1610
unfertileness1611
non-production1656
non-productiveness1848
unfructuosity1884
zero growth1907
1848 Sci. Amer. 13 May 270/3 The Quaker families..from the necessity of marriage among themselves, increase the influence of non-productiveness.
1879 M. Pattison Milton 88 All artists have intervals of non-productiveness.
1948 Language 24 431 The productiveness or non-productiveness of a formation is similarly a meaningful morphemic feature.
1993 K. Welsh-Asante Afr. Aesthetic (1994) ix. 148 The type of cultural non-productiveness..that we find attributed to African Americans..is one of the ways in which writing on jazz..reflects the ways in which blacks tend to be..characterized.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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