Barrenness is the property of being barren, of not being able to support life.

She stopped worshipping tano and began worshipping God

Barrenness is the same as infertility: the inability to have children, or in the case of land, to bear crops. In the Bible, the word is mostly applied to women.

T.S. Eliot builds an atmosphere of futility and barrenness in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" through the use of fragmented thoughts, repetition, and allusions to decay and emptiness. The poem's imagery and the speaker's sense of indecision and social alienation further contribute to the overall mood of disillusionment and despair.