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say it: fur-TIL-uh-tee
fertility is a noun meaning "the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth
“he praised the richness of the soil”
“weeds lovely in their rankness”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fertility come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.