unproductiveness
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Others suggest that after five years of infirmity, unproductiveness and cramped quarters the thought of having a new play produced might amount to a rebirth.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The very unproductiveness of Gray's mind in other directions probably helped this one product.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
It is not small in quantity, though his unproductiveness in later years has made it appear that he was less fluent and abundant in verse than he really was.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Inventors, great and small, never cease to complain over the periods of unproductiveness which they undergo in spite of themselves.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron
I know the sly cabals of my much-esteemed friends, who seize every opportunity to parade my unproductiveness before my eyes.
From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. by Paul Heyse