different between fecund vs fecundity

English

Alternative forms

• fœcund (hypercorrect, obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French fécond, from Latin fecundus (“fertile”), which is related to f?tus and f?mina (“woman”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f?.k?nd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fi?.k?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Adjective

fecund (comparative more fecund, superlative most fecund)

1. (formal) Highly fertile; able to produce offspring.
2. (figuratively) Leading to new ideas or innovation.
   • 1906, Charles Sanders Pierce, "The Basis of Pragmatism in the Normative Sciences", in The Essential Pierce: Selected Philosophical Writings, volume II, page 373

     This idea of Aristotle's has proved marvellously fecund; and in truth it is the only idea covering quite the whole area of cenoscopy that has shown any marked uberosity.

Synonyms

• (highly fertile): fertile
• (leading to new ideas or innovation): fertile, productive, prolific

Related terms

• fecundity

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French fécond, from Latin fecundus.

Adjective

fecund m or n (feminine singular fecund?, masculine plural fecunzi, feminine and neuter plural fecunde)

1. fruitful

Declension

Related terms

• fecunda
• fecunditate

English

Alternative forms

• fœcundity (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin f?cundit?s (“fruitfulness, fertility”), from f?cundus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /f??k?nd?t?/
• Hyphenation: fe?cun?di?ty

Noun

fecundity (usually uncountable, plural fecundities)

1. Ability to produce offspring.
   • 2006, Neil Gaiman, “Neil Gaiman on Terry Pratchett” in: Good Omens, Corgi, p. 410

     In the early days the reviewers compared him to the late Douglas Adams, but then Terry went on to write books as enthusiastically as Douglas avoided writing them, and now, if there is any comparison to be made of anything from the formal rules of a Pratchett novel to the sheer prolific fecundity of the man, it might be to P. G. Wodehouse.

2. Ability to cause growth.
3. Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
4. Rate of production of young by a female.

Synonyms

• (ability to produce offspring): fertileness, fertility

Related terms

• fecund
• fecundation

Translations

Further reading

• fecundity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fecundity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• fecundity in the Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, English section, second edition, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Liège, 1982
• fecundity at OneLook Dictionary Search