[f. ABORTIVE a. + -NESS.] The quality of being abortive; unproductiveness, fruitlessness, state of failure.
1657. Winthorpe, in Burton’s Diary (1828), II. 268. We were well warned by the abortiveness of another Bill as good.
1674. R. Godfrey, Inj. & Abuses in Phys., 52. At the Abortiveness and irrationality of which Recipe who is able enough to admire?
1865. W. G. Palgrave, Centr. Arabia, I. 314. Plans and schemes … destined to lasting abortiveness.
