different between hereditary vs heredity

English

Etymology

From Latin hereditarius, from hereditas 'inheritance', from heres 'heir'

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h????d?t(?)?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /h????d??t??i/
• Hyphenation: he?red?i?ta?ry

Adjective

hereditary (comparative more hereditary, superlative most hereditary)

1. Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
2. Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.

   Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.

3. Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.

   hereditary rulers

4. Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes

   Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.

5. (mathematics) Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.

Synonyms

• inhereditary

Antonyms

• nonhereditary

Derived terms

Related terms

• see heir

Translations

Noun

hereditary (plural hereditaries)

1. A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.

See also

• congenital

Anagrams

• erythraeid

English

Etymology

From Middle French heredité, from Latin h?r?ditas (“condition of being an heir”), from h?res (“heir”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h????d?ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /h???????i/

Noun

heredity (usually uncountable, plural heredities)

1. Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.

Related terms

• hereditary

Translations

See also

• pangenesis

Anagrams

• third eye