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Webster 1913 Edition


Barrenness

Bar′ren-ness

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Noun.
The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness.
A total
barrenness
of invention.
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition


Barrenness

BAR'RENNESS

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adv.
The quality of not producing its kind; want of the power of conception; applied to animals.
2.
Unfruitfulness; sterility, infertility. The quality of not producing at all, or in small quantities; as the barrenness of soil.
3.
Want of invention; want of the power of producing any thing new; applied to the mind.
4.
Want of matter; scantiness; as the barrenness of a cause.
5.
Defect of emotion, sensibility or fervency; as the barrenness of devotion.

Definition 2024


barrenness

barrenness

English

Noun

barrenness (usually uncountable, plural barrennesses)

  1. The property of being barren; the property of not supporting life.