prolificacy

1. 1.

   the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth

   “he praised the richness of the soil”

   “weeds lovely in their rankness”

   Synonymsrichnessranknessfertility

   Broaderfruitfulness

Other forms of prolificacy

plural

prolificacies·

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 prolificacy

What does prolificacy mean?

prolificacy means "the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth".

How many syllables are in prolificacy?

prolificacy has 5 syllables: pro-li-fi-ca-cy. The stress falls on "fi".

What is another word for prolificacy?

Close synonyms include richness, rankness, fertility. 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.

Is prolificacy a common word?

prolificacy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.