Meaning & use
Barrenness
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The state or quality of being barren, whether describing land unable to support vegetation, a person or animal unable to reproduce, or a lack of ideas or content.
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The barrenness of the desert landscape stretched for miles.
Critics noted the barrenness of the speech, which offered no real solutions.
A note on using this word
"Barrenness" applies equally to literal, physical infertility of land or organisms and to the figurative emptiness of ideas, writing, or results.
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