different between heritability vs inheritance

English

Noun

heritability (countable and uncountable, plural heritabilities)

1. (uncountable) The condition of being inheritable
2. (countable, genetics) The ratio of the genetic variance of a population to its phenotypic variance; i.e. the proportion of variability that is genetic in origin

Synonyms

• inheritability (much less common)

Antonyms

• environmentability

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• enheritance (obsolete)
• enheritaunce (obsolete)
• inheritaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

Recorded since 1473, inherit +? -ance. More at inherit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?h???t?ns/

Noun

inheritance (countable and uncountable, plural inheritances)

1. The passing of title to an estate upon death.
2. (countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
3. (uncountable, especially linguistics, biology) The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited

   The Indo-European languages share various similarities as a result of their inheritance from a common ancestor.

4. (biology, genetic algorithms) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
5. (programming, object-oriented programming) The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• inheritance law
• preheritance

Related terms

• inherit
• inheritable
• inheritor

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “inheritance”, in Online Etymology Dictionary