Sterility is the absence of living organisms or the total removal of living organisms, usually by heat or chemical means.
Sterile or sterility may refer to:
- Asepsis, a state of being free from biological contaminants
- Sterile (archaeology), a sediment deposit which contains no evidence of human activity
- Sterilization (microbiology), any process that eliminates or kills all forms of life or removes them from an item or a field
- Sterility (physiology), an inability of a living organism to effect sexual reproduction
- Infertility, a medical condition which prevents a person, an animal or a plant from bearing children, especially through natural means
- Sterile Records, a record label which was formed by Nigel Ayers and Caroline K of the post-industrial music group Nocturnal Emissions in London in 1979
English
Etymology
From sterile + -ity, from Middle French stérilité, from Latin sterilitas.
Pronunciation
Noun
sterility (usually uncountable, plural sterilities)
- The state or quality of being sterile.
Synonyms
- sterileness




