"sterility" in the noun sense
1. asepsis, antisepsis, sterility, sterileness
of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms
2. sterility, infertility
the state of being unable to produce offspring in a woman it is an inability to conceive in a man it is an inability to impregnate
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