subfertilityn.
/ˌsʌbfəːˈtɪlᵻti/, /ˌsʌbfəˈtɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ˌsəbfərˈtɪlᵻdi/ Reduced or impaired fertility; production of fewer offspring than is normal or average (for a population, species, etc.).
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unkinda1200
barrenhoodc1380
barrennessa1382
geldheada1400
sterility1535
sterileness1558
unfruitfulness1565
infecundity1605
deadness1611
infertility1869
subfertility1917
1917 R. H. Johnson Let. 9 Apr. in School & Society 9 June 680/2 If the faculties of the women's colleges were seriously setting out to correct the sub-fertility of their graduates, it would be comforting..but this smug defiance of the biological foundation of progress is appalling.
1948 Statesville (N. Carolina) Daily Record 2 Oct. 12/3 She calls it a ‘sub-fertility clinic’.
1986 Irish Naturalists' Jrnl. 22 63 Most areas visited contained a few local endemics [of the genus Rubus], some of recent origin judging by inconsistency in leaf and panicle shape, subfertility and liability to felt disease.
2003 S. J. Segal & L. Mastroianni Hormone Use Menopause & Male Andropause 44 It has become clear that subfertility in ovulatory women in the late reproductive years is the direct result of biochemical and structural changes in the eggs that are being released.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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