barrenness vs sterility
sterility vs barrennessbarrenness and sterility both are nouns.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| barrenness | Yes | No | No | No |
| sterility | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
sterility is a hypernym of
barrenness; that is, sterility is a
word with a broader meaning than barrenness:
- barrenness: the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children
- 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
Other hypernyms of barrenness include
infertility.
| barrenness (noun) | sterility (noun) |
|---|---|
| the quality of yielding nothing of value | 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 |
| the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children | (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms |
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