progenitiveness

English

Etymology

progenitive +‎ -ness

Noun

progenitiveness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being progenitive (able to produce offspring).
   • 1849, European Life and Manners‎^[1], 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^[2]:

     The aspect of progenitiveness leaves space for the interpretation of the mythical bear as either male or female.