- sterility
- n1. purity, harmlessness, uninfectiousness, asepticism, cleanliness.2. childlessness, barrenness, infertility, unprolificness, infecundity, Med. agenesis, impotence, effeteness.3. unproductiveness, unyieldingness, unfruitfulness, fruitlessness; exhaustion, depletion, impoverishment; meagerness, scarcity, poverty, emptiness; dryness, aridity, baldness, nakedness, bareness, waste, desolation, death.4. ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, inadequacy, inefficiency, incompetence, ineptness; uselessness, inutility, worthlessness, valuelessness, meritlessness, nugacity; futility, bootlessness, unavailingness, idleness; unprofitableness, profitlessness, nonsuccess, failure, defeat.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.