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UK
/fɹˈuːtfəlnəs/
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NOUN
- the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination
- the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
How To Use fruitfulness In A Sentence
- The secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Friedrich Nietzsche
- Life has an abundance of trivialities that are not always mere trivialities, but can too easily stand in the way of the potential fruitfulness of participation in alternative avenues.
- Thus you may perceive the infinite fruitfulness of the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Pope Benedict XVI
- The Christmas tree is included in the exhibition as a symbol of fruitfulness and abundance in the house.
- In Belgium St. Martin is chiefly known as the bringer of apples and nuts for children; in Bavaria and Austria he has a different aspect: a _gerte_ or rod, supposed to promote fruitfulness among cattle and prosperity in general, is connected with his day. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
- It takes time for the validity or fruitfulness of any academic development to become clear.
- Here it is crucial for him to find “the right definitions”; and this involves not just basic adequacy, but also desiderata such as fruitfulness, generality, simplicity, and “purity”, i.e., the elimination of aspects “foreign” to the case at hand. Dedekind's Contributions to the Foundations of Mathematics
- Good works are the children of the new nature, the products of our union with Christ, as the fruitfulness of the vine is the product of its union with the root. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
- What is sinful is the exaltation of pleasure above the proper ends of marriage, which are union, fruitfulness, and the healing, exaltation, and perfection of the spouses.
- But it is more likely that it has direct reference to the wind which accompanies the rain storm rather than to "fruitfulness," as Seler supposes. Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266.