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barrenness
barrennessthe state of being barren: the barrenness of the land
Not to be confused with:baroness – the wife of a baron; a woman holding a baronial title in her own rightbar·ren B0084600 (băr′ən)adj.1. a. Not producing or incapable of producing offspring. Used of female animals.b. Often Offensive Not producing or incapable of producing offspring. Used of women.2. Not producing or incapable of producing fruit: barren trees.3. Lacking vegetation, especially useful vegetation: barren tundra.4. Unproductive of results or gains; unprofitable: "That icy winter silence—how it froze you from your bride, / Tho' I made one barren effort to break it at the last!" (Alfred Lord Tennyson). See Synonyms at futile.5. Devoid of something specified: writing barren of insight.6. Lacking in liveliness or interest: a barren routine.n. often barrens A tract of unproductive land, often with a scrubby growth of trees.
[Middle English barreine, from Old French brahaigne, perhaps of Germanic origin.]
bar′ren·ly adv.bar′ren·ness n.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | barrenness - the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have childreninfertility, sterility - the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate | | 2. |  barrenness - the quality of yielding nothing of valuearidity, fruitlessnessquality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespearepoorness - less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England farmland"unproductiveness - the quality of lacking the power to produce |
barrennessnoun1. The state or condition of being unable to reproduce sexually:infertility, sterility, sterilization.2. Empty, unfilled space:emptiness, nothingness, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void.3. Total lack of ideas, meaning, or substance:blankness, emptiness, hollowness, inanity, vacancy, vacuity, vacuousness.Translationsbarren (ˈbӕrən) adjective not able to produce crops, fruit, young etc. barren soil; a barren fruit-tree; a barren woman. 貧瘠的，不孕的 贫瘠的，不育的 ˈbarrenness noun 貧瘠，不孕 荒芜，不孕 Barrenness
BarrennessBashfulness (See TIMIDITY.)Andermatt, Christianetakes series of baths hoping to cure childlessness. [Fr. Lit.: Mont-Oriol, Magill I, 618–620]Barren Groundnovel portraying a woman’s emotional sterility and her harsh labor on a farm. [Am. Lit.: Barren Ground]brownsymbol of unfruitfulness. [Color Symbolism: Jobes, 357]Death Valleysterile, arid basin in Nevada and California. [Geography: EB, III: 417]ElizabethVirgin’s kinswoman, blessed with pregnancy as old woman. [N.T.: Luke 1:5–25]Empty Quartervast desert in the Arabian peninsula. [Geography: EB, VIII: 703]Hannah Elkanah’sbarren wife; prays to Lord who grants her a son, Samuel. [O.T.: I Samuel 1:6]Saharavast north African desert. [Geography: EB, VIII: 768]SarahAbraham’s wife; unable to bear children. [O.T.: Genesis 11:30]Waste Land, Theportrays sterility and chaos of the contemporary world. [Br. Lit.: “The Waste Land” in Hart, 899–900]MedicalSeebarrenBarrenness
BARRENNESS. The incapacity to produce a child. This, when arising from impotence, is a cause for dissolving a marriage. 1 Fodere, Med. Leg. Sec. 254. barrenness
Synonyms for barrennessnoun the state or condition of being unable to reproduce sexuallySynonyms- infertility
- sterility
- sterilization
noun empty, unfilled spaceSynonyms- emptiness
- nothingness
- vacancy
- vacuity
- vacuum
- void
noun total lack of ideas, meaning, or substanceSynonyms- blankness
- emptiness
- hollowness
- inanity
- vacancy
- vacuity
- vacuousness
Synonyms for barrennessnoun the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have childrenRelated Wordsnoun the quality of yielding nothing of valueSynonymsRelated Words- quality
- poorness
- unproductiveness
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