(rare) The state or characteristic of being fertile.
circa1583Philip Sidney, A Defence of Poesie and Poems, "An Apologie for Poetrie":... and he, according to the fertileness of the Italian wit, did not only afford us the demonstration of his practice, but sought to enrich our minds.
1915, E. L. Kolb, Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico, ch. 7:This valley is eighty-seven miles long. It did not have the fertileness of Brown's Park.
2001, Maureen Anderson, "Unraveling the Southern Pastoral Tradition," Southern Literary Journal, vol. 34, no. 1, p. 4:The fertileness of Place du Bois, "rich in its exhaustless powers of reproduction," reflects a golden age of easy life.
