Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun barrenness

2 senses of barrenness

Sense 1
barrenness -- (the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children)
       => sterility, infertility -- (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)

Sense 2
fruitlessness, aridity, barrenness -- (the quality of yielding nothing of value)
       => quality -- (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare)