seminality

Noun

seminality (countable and uncountable, plural seminalities)

1. The quality or state of being seminal.
   • And unless [God] purposely put a stop to the course of Nature, the great principle of vegetative life will necessarily shape the matter, when duely modified, into all kinde of trees, plants, herbs and flowers: for the inferiour spirit of the world acts not by choice, but fatally; and being...1661, George Rust, A Letter of Resolution Concerning Origen, London: C.L., (Facsimile Text Society, Columbia University Press, 1933), p. 84
   • For perfection is not, like light, center’d in any one body; but, like the dispersed seminalities of vegetables at the creation, scattered through the whole mass of the earth, no place producing all, and almost all some.1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 43