STERILITY as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • the state of being unable to produce offspring
   • in a woman it is an inability to conceive
   • in a man it is an inability to impregnate
   Synonym(s)
   • infertility (what does infertility mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) sterility is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • physiological state (what does physiological state mean?)
   • physiological condition (what does physiological condition mean?)
   Antonym(s)
   • fertility (what does fertility mean?)
   • fecundity (what does fecundity mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • impotence (what does impotence mean?)
   • impotency (what does impotency mean?)
   • barrenness (what does barrenness mean?)
   • cacogenesis (what does cacogenesis mean?)
   • dysgenesis (what does dysgenesis mean?)
2. Meaning
   • (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms
   Synonym(s)
   • antisepsis (what does antisepsis mean?)
   • asepsis (what does asepsis mean?)
   • sterileness (what does sterileness mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) sterility is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • sanitariness (what does sanitariness mean?)