#485 fecundity

fecundity- fertility; fruitfulness; intellectual fruitfulness; creativity

fecundate- verb- to make fruitful; to fertilize; impregnate

C17 from Latin fecundare to fertilize

The driving force behind all this fecundity is a terrible pressure I also must consider, the pressure of birth and growth, the pressure that squeezes out the egg and bursts the pupa, that hungers and lusts and drives the creature relentlessly toward its own death.

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