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infertility vs barrenness

barrenness vs infertility

infertility and barrenness both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
infertility Yes No No No
barrenness Yes No No No
As nouns, barrenness is a hyponym of infertility; that is, barrenness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than infertility:
  • infertility: 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
  • barrenness: the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children
Other hyponyms of infertility include impotence, impotency, cacogenesis, dysgenesis.
infertility (noun) barrenness (noun)
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 quality of yielding nothing of value
the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children
Difference between infertility and barrenness

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