progenitiveness
English
Etymology
progenitive + -ness
Noun
progenitiveness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being progenitive (able to produce offspring).
- 1849, European Life and Manners, page 164:
- The Crèche is the place where the poor mothers leave their children in the morning, in the care of some kind women who have a large philo-progenitiveness and no other means of gratifying it than by pet cats or dogs, or other people's children, and go off to their work until night.
- 1867, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, page 293:
- There is another difficulty in the way of accepting metaphysical peculiarity or progenitiveness as isolating species.
- 2008, Harald Haarmann, Introducing the Mythological Crescent:
- The aspect of progenitiveness leaves space for the interpretation of the mythical bear as either male or female.
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