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  • 71efficacy — [n] efficiency; productiveness ability, adequacy, capability, capableness, capacity, competence, effect, effectiveness, efficaciousness, energy, force, influence, performance, potency, power, strength, success, sufficiency, use, vigor, virtue,… …

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  • 72lumpen — [loom′pən; ] E [ lum′pən] adj. [shortened < lumpenproletariat < Ger, lowest level of the proletariat: coined (1850) by Karl Marx < lumpen , trashy (< lump, scoundrel, ragamuffin, lit., rag < MHG lumpe: see LIMP1) + proletariat,… …

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  • 73aridity — noun 1. the quality of yielding nothing of value (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑fruitlessness, ↑barrenness • Ant: ↑fruitfulness (for: ↑fruitlessness) • …

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  • 74barrenness — noun 1. the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children • Derivationally related forms: ↑barren • Hypernyms: ↑sterility, ↑infertility 2. the quality of yielding nothing of value • Syn: ↑fruitlessnes …

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  • 75fruitlessness — noun 1. a lack of creative imagination • Hypernyms: ↑uncreativeness 2. the quality of yielding nothing of value • Syn: ↑aridity, ↑barrenness • Ant: ↑fruitfulness …

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  • 76productiveness — noun the quality of being productive or having the power to produce • Syn: ↑productivity • Ant: ↑unproductiveness • Derivationally related forms: ↑productive (for: ↑productivity), ↑ …

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  • 77unproductive — adj. not productive. Derivatives: unproductively adv. unproductiveness n …

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  • 78unfruitfulness — “+ noun : the quality or state of being unfruitful : unproductiveness, sterility …

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