Noah Webster
Sterility
STERILITY, noun [Latin]
1. Barrenness; unproductiveness; unfruitfulness; the quality or state of producing little or nothing; as the sterility of land or soil.
2. Barrenness; unfruitfulness; the state of not producing young; as of animals.
3. Barrenness of ideas or sentiments, as in writings.
4. Want of fertility or the power of producing sentiment; as the sterility of an author or of his mind.