Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The condition, quality, or degree of being fertile.
- noun The birthrate of a population.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being fertile or fruitful; the quality of producing in abundance: fecundity; productiveness: as, the fertility of land, or (more rarely) of a breed of animals, a race of men, or an individual.
- noun Prolific invention; abundance of resources; mental affluence: as, the fertility of genius or imagination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The condition, or the degree, of being
fertile . - noun countable The
birthrate of apopulation ; thenumber oflive births per 1000 people peryear .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
- noun the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
- noun the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth
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Examples
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_ They are thus both encouraged and enabled to increase this surplus produce by a further improvement and better cultivation of the land; and _as the fertility of the land has given birth to the manufacture, so the progress of the manufacture reacts upon the land, and increases still further its fertility_.
The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished 1836
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Today’s fall in fertility is both very large and very fast.
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Well for those with a mere grade school education, fertility is a major component of public health.
The Health Care Market, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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After all, look at when we had a huge jump in fertility, the 20 year 'baby boom', a time of very low immigration!
A Childish Question About Immigration, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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If fertility is not a medical problem, then dunno what is.
The Health Care Market, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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— If They Don 't Look at It Notwithstanding a few oldsters sitting in fertility clinics with their young wives, baby boomers are pretty much done with reproduction.
A Van Parents Will Love Dan Neil 2010
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Mexican fertility is declining so fast we may run out of them.
And Bring on the Mexicans, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The streams are so low in fertility that the few that do survive don't do well.
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People such as Steyn that talk about collapse usually refer to demographic and cultural factors, not economic ones (Steyn also does not seem to understand that white-non Hispanic fertility is as low in the US as in most Europe).
Will Europe Collapse?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The streams are so low in fertility that the few that do survive don't do well.
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