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heredity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of heredity

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 heredity

ancestry, birth, blood, bloodline, breeding, descent, extraction, family tree, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stock, strain

kin, kindred, relations, relatives

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of heredity

child, heir, inheritor, son, successor

issue, posterity, progeny, seed

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