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  • Prolificness, prolificity or prolificitude?
    by GaiusCoffey at 14:02 on 04 September 2013
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  • Re: Prolificness, prolificity or prolificitude?
    by EmmaD at 14:22 on 04 September 2013
    Yes, I've been wondering that...

    OED gives prolificity (1718) - The quality of being prolific; fruitfulness; fecundity.

    with slightly earlier

    prolificness (1678) - The quality of being prolific (in various senses); esp. great or abundant fruitfulness or productiveness, productivity.

    and prolificalness coming in slightly later (1699) but made from "prolifical" as a 1608 adjective, +ness. Given as "now rare" but an example from 1996.

    Edited by EmmaD at 14:22:00 on 04 September 2013
  • Re: Prolificness, prolificity or prolificitude?
    by GaiusCoffey at 15:17 on 04 September 2013
    I quite like the idea of "prolifical", it seems so versatile...

    In a pub filled with badly written yokel stereotypes:
    "That there writer, he be quite prolifical, so he be."

    In the atrium of a badly written ivory tower:
    "And of course, I can highly recommend Xavier Preveldicott. Some have mistaken his prolificality for the garrulousness of a talentless hack, yet his quality is as steady as his prolifical output."

    In a book club:
    "Of course, I haven't read all his works, one couldn't with a writer so prolifical, yet his latest book rather makes one want to try."

    Edited by GaiusCoffey at 15:18:00 on 04 September 2013
  • Re: Prolificness, prolificity or prolificitude?
    by EmmaD at 15:46 on 04 September 2013
    Gaius.

    I'm trying to think of rhymes for prolifical, but can only come up with Pontifical, which is a cynical joke waiting to happen...
  • Re: Prolificness, prolificity or prolificitude?
    by GaiusCoffey at 16:25 on 04 September 2013
    A writer with output prolifical,
    Tried ever so hard not to ridicule
    Reviewers whose nose
    Out-of-jointed at prose,
    Like his, that was oft times political.