Fer-tĭl'i-ty, n.

n. [Lat. fertilitas, Fr. fertilité, Pr. fertilitat, Sp. fertilidad, It. fertilità.] The state of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; the quality of producing fruit in abundance; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination.

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