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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness.

A total

barrenness

of invention.

Dryden.

adv.

The quality of not producing its kind; want of the power of conception; applied to animals.

Unfruitfulness; sterility, infertility. The quality of not producing at all, or in small quantities; as the barrenness of soil.

Want of invention; want of the power of producing any thing new; applied to the mind.

Want of matter; scantiness; as the barrenness of a cause.

Defect of emotion, sensibility or fervency; as the barrenness of devotion.

barrenness ‎(usually uncountable, plural barrennesses)