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• n  the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
• n  the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination

• The sense of submarine fantasy was reinforced by Stage Designer Lila de Nobili's fine scenery: a castle of mist and fruitfulness, shadowy crags and waterfalls, aqueous skies .
• Across Alberta's fertile grainlands, no farmers work their soil with greater diligence or more fruitfulness than the Hutterites, the bearded and devout descendants of German .
• Autumn is not just the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, as Keats wrote, but also the widening of the class divide.

• fecundity

• fruitlessness

News & Articles

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• Episcopal Leader: Membership Losses Are 'Spirit's Way of Pruning for Greater Fruitfulness'
  The head of The Episcopal Church has stated that the declining numbers of her denomination could be the work of the Holy Spirit to create "greater fruitfulness."
  Aug. 19, 2013 - The Christian Post

Quotes

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• John Keats in Sun.Star
  John Keats, author of 'To Autumn,' wrote: "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! / Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and bless / With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; / To bend with apples the...
• Pope Benedict XVI in Catholic News Agency
  Their connection to the Peter's Successor "remains the criterion and guarantee of the spiritual fruitfulness of all missionary activity," Benedict XVI explained.