"sterility" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sterilities [plural]
Etymology: sterile + -ity, from Middle French stérilité, from Latin sterilitas. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sterile|ity}} sterile + -ity, {{bor|en|frm|stérilité}} Middle French stérilité, {{der|en|la|sterilitas}} Latin sterilitas Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} sterility (usually uncountable, plural sterilities)
  1. The state or quality of being sterile. Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms: sterileness Translations (state of being sterile): ἀγονία (agonía) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), безплодие (bezplodie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), стерилитет (sterilitet) [masculine] (Bulgarian), esterilitat [feminine] (Catalan), neplodnost [feminine] (Czech), steriliteit [feminine] (Dutch), senfrukteco (Esperanto), sterileco (Esperanto), esterilidade [feminine] (Galician), Sterilität [feminine] (German), αγονία (agonía) [feminine] (Greek), sterilitate (Interlingua), sterilità [feminine] (Italian), unwæstmbǣrnes [feminine] (Old English), قیصیرلق (kısırlık) (Ottoman Turkish), bezpłodność [feminine] (Polish), esterilidade [feminine] (Portuguese), esterilidad [feminine] (Spanish), ugumba (Swahili), kısırlık (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-sterility-en-noun-QOMflbKQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ity

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "state of being sterile",
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      "sense": "state of being sterile",
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      "sense": "state of being sterile",
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      "sense": "state of being sterile",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "state of being sterile",
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      "sense": "state of being sterile",
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      "sense": "state of being sterile",
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