unfruitfulness

It was a waste place of terrible unfruitfulness.

From The Odds And Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

One is that, as he told his chaplain, Dr. Rawley, late in life, he had discovered, as far back as his Cambridge days, the "unfruitfulness" of Aristotle's method.

From Bacon by John Morley

Again, too much very young and too much old wood are causes of unfruitfulness.

From Success with Small Fruits by Edward Payson Roe

Three years of unfruitfulness through almost the whole of Europe had been followed by a commercial crisis, which threatened the town with entire destruction. 

From A Woman's Journey Round the World by Ida Pfeiffer

With our unfruitfulness in works after the old style, the taste for these works proportionately increases.

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul