HEREDITIES Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

heredities

noun

plural of heredity

as in genealogies

formal the natural process by which physical and mental qualities are passed from a parent to a child Heredity plays no part in the disease.

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Noun

The seal texts often introduced the owners with their names, genealogies, gender, professions and hometowns.

— Serdar Yalçin, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
Transcripts, grammars, vocabularies, dictionaries, glyph studies, botanical studies, commentaries, articles, editions of codices, correspondence, maps, charts, drawings, photographs, Maya Society materials, genealogies of Maya families, and Mayan glyphs on moveable type.

— The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 12 Sep. 2025

Definition of genealogies

Noun

Under cross-examination, Wallace said investigators did not swab or collect two chainsaws found in Burke’s garage because both tested negative for possible traces of blood.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2026
Detectives believe that the killer cut herself during the attack and left the spot of blood.

— Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2026

Definition of blood

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As El Mayo expanded his power – a fact that put him in the crosshairs of the United States, which offered a $15 million reward for his capture – many close relatives were arrested and extradited to US territory.

— Sol Amaya, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
All user data is kept confidential to that individual, though users can opt in to sharing it with others—like older folks who want to share it with their relatives or doctors to keep track of their health together.

— Alexandra York, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of relatives

Noun

Helaena, however, is not concerned with thrones or successions.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
History shows family successions, whether in North Korea or Syria, tend to happen through rigid authoritarian control, with the transfer of power underwritten by whoever controls the military.

— Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 6 July 2026

Definition of successions

Noun

The family trees here have a lot of branches and some of them are a bit rotten.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 July 2026
The case was built by forensic genetic genealogy, which is the same science that traced DNA family trees to find the Golden State Killer in California and help solve the Yogurt Shop Murders in Austin, Texas.

— Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2026

Definition of family trees

Noun

After all those conversations, one thing that has become clear is that families don’t expect Washington to fix everything.

— Kent Strang, Boston Herald, 26 July 2026
Treasury's default option right now is the SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF, and until families can actively choose between fund options, that's where contributions land.

— Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026

Definition of families

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Ed Henderson, a longtime member of the Georgia GOP’s state committee from Rabun County, said an expanding map of competitive Senate races could make Collins’ task even harder.

— Greg Bluestein, AJC.com, 20 July 2026
In the 2010s, both Theresa May and Boris Johnson became prime minister after winning Conservative leadership races when their predecessors resigned midterm.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 July 2026

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