infertility

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymssterility

   Antonymsfertility

   Broaderphysical condition

   Narrowerimpotencebarrennesscacogenesisdysgenesis

Other forms of infertility

plural

infertilities·

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.

Questions about infertility

What does infertility mean?

infertility means "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".

How many syllables are in infertility?

infertility has 5 syllables: in-fer-til-i-ty. The stress falls on "til". In IPA it is /ˌɪnfɚˈtɪlɪˌti/.

What is another word for infertility?

Close synonyms include sterility. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of infertility?

The recorded antonyms are fertility.

Is infertility a common word?

infertility is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with infertility?

66 words rhyme with infertility. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.