fruitfulness
実り
解説 Definition
豊かに実をつけること、または努力の成果が多く得られる状態。生産性が高く、豊かな結果をもたらす性質を表します。
Fruitfulness is the quality of producing many good results, ideas, or products. It can describe real growth, such as in nature, or successful and productive effort in work, thought, or relationships.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
fruit を知っていれば、「果実がある状態」→ fruitful「実り多い」→ fruitfulness「実りの豊かさ」と、語形の積み上げで覚えると忘れにくいです。-ness は「性質・状態」を作る定番語尾。農業の豊作だけでなく、努力・研究・会話がよい結果を生む比喩にも使えます。a period of fruitfulness, intellectual fruitfulness など。「量が多い」productivity より、「価値ある成果が実る」感触が強い語です。
Build it step by step: `fruit` -> `fruitful` -> `fruitfulness`. The ending `-ness` often makes a noun for a quality or state, so this is the state of being fruitful. Think of it as a word for results that grow well, not just for working hard.
例文
The apple tree showed great fruitfulness this year.
りんごの木は今年素晴らしい実りを示しました。
The farmer celebrated the fruitfulness of his harvest.
農民は彼の収穫の実りを祝いました。
Her academic career demonstrated remarkable fruitfulness.
彼女の学業キャリアは著しい実りを示しました。
fruitfulness の類義語・関連語
fruitfulness の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語 fructus（果実・収穫）に由来する fruit に、性質を表す -ful と名詞化の -ness が付いた語。語根 frui は「享受する」の意で、fruition（実現）や fructose（果糖）と同根。実りは享受の結果という発想が込められている。
Fruitfulness comes from fruit, which entered English through French from Latin fructus, meaning "fruit" or "enjoyment," plus -ful and -ness. The deeper Latin root is frui, meaning "to enjoy" or "have the use of." Because fruit was understood as the result or reward of growth, the word developed the sense of producing plenty or bringing good results. Related words include fruition and fructose.
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