Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Fertility

Fertility , noun

[Latin fertilitas: compare French fertilité.]

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