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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heredities
  1. genealogies
  2. blood
  3. relatives
  4. successions
  5. family trees
  6. families
  7. races
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
Noun
  • By late adolescence, my relatives’ narrative was on how much agency enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue had in shaping their future.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 July 2026
  • During that news conference, the room was filled with McCarthy’s relatives.
    — Mike DeFabo, New York Times, 27 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
Noun
  • Wheelie contests, one-on-one races and freestyle trick events filled the air with engine revs and track dirt as the drivers precariously balanced, drifted and jumped the 10,000 pound vehicles.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 26 July 2026
  • On the island, Heiva i Tahiti has been celebrated every July since, with traditional dance, drumming, singing and sports, such as javelin throwing and canoe races.
    — Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2026
Definition of races
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