Fertility \Fer*til"i*ty\, n. [L. fertilitas: cf. F. fertilit['e].]

The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination. ``fertility of resource.'' --E. Everett.

And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps Corrupting in its own fertility. --Shak.

Thy very weeds are beautiful; thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility. --Byron.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)