sterility
noun [U] /stəˈrɪl.ɪ.ti/
/-ə.t̬i/ Definition
› (in animals and people) the condition of being unable to produce young, or (in plants) the condition of being unable to produce plants or cropsAnimal reproductionPlant pathology › the state of having no imagination, new ideas, or energy: Over a bottle of wine, we shared our despair over the emotional sterility of our marriages.Boredom, tedium and boring things
(Definition of sterility noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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