- asepsis, antisepsis, sterility, sterileness - (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms
--1 is a kind of sanitariness
- sterility, infertility - the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate
--2 is a kind of physiological state, physiological condition
--2 has particulars:impotence, impotency; barrenness; cacogenesis; dysgenesis