noun
sterility, unproductiveness, infecundity, infertility, childlessness, effeteness, impotence, desolateness, unfruitfulness, bleakness, emptiness, aridness, aridity, agenesis, unfructuosity.
Antonyms fertility*, fruitfulness, richness.
See barrenness in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
The state or condition of being unable to reproduce sexually:
Empty, unfilled space:
Total lack of ideas, meaning, or substance:
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