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sterility
 
NOUN:1. A lack of excitement, liveliness, or interest: asepticism, blandness, colorlessness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, dullness, flatness, flavorlessness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, lifelessness, sterileness, stodginess, vapidity, vapidness, weariness. See EXCITE. 2. The state or condition of being free from microorganisms: sterilization. See CLEAN. 3. The state or condition of being unable to reproduce sexually: barrenness, infertility, sterilization. See REPRODUCTION, RICH.
 
 
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