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heredities

noun , plural of heredity

Synonyms and Antonyms of heredities

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.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of heredities

ancestries, births, blood, bloodlines, breedings, descents, extractions, family trees, genealogies, lines, lineages, origins, parentages, pedigrees, stocks, strains

families, houses

kins, kindreds, relations, relatives

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of heredities

offspring (also offsprings)

children, heirs, inheritors, sons, successors

issues, posterities, progenies, seed (or seeds)

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