Today’s Words That Work: Fecundity
Fecundity (fih-KUN-dih-tee) — from the Latin for “fertility” — is the capacity for abundant production.
Example (as used by Leon Wieseltier in a New York Times review of Saul Bellow: Letters, edited by Benjamin Taylor): “The unruliness of existence was Bellow’s lasting theme; but while he studied it, he never quite ordered it. In fiction and in life, he seemed to believe in the fecundity of disorder.”
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