hereditarinessn.
/hᵻˈrɛdᵻt(ə)rɪnᵻs/, U.S. /həˌrɛdəˈtɛrinᵻs/ The quality of being hereditary; capacity to be inherited, or transmitted from parent to offspring.
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the world > movement > transference > [noun] > transmission or passing on > passing on or being passed on from a source > ability to be passed to offspring
hereditariness1640
inheritability1784
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > capability of
hereditariness1640
descendibility1765
heredity1773
inheritableness1780
inheritability1784
hereditability1798
descendability1830
heritability1832
1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 175 First for the hereditarinesse of it [sc. a leprosy], it is a successive disease.
1683 Britanniæ Speculum 243 The unalterable Hereditariness of the Monarchy.
1703 Athenian Oracle II. 367/1 We shan't fly to the old Subterfuge of Hereditariness.
1861 C. Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 372 His paper about hereditariness beats everything.
1887 S. Smiles Life & Labour 188 The hereditariness of family features appeared..in the configuration of the head.
1911 Jrnl. Amer. Instit. Criminal Law & Criminol. 2 206 Outside of pathology,..the hereditariness of a human quality, and specifically of a criminal disposition, is by no means acknowledged.
1971 C. R. Barber & S. M. Stern tr. I. Goldziher Muslim Stud. II. iii. 99 They..had to maintain the hereditariness of the caliphate in order to prove their claims.
2007 D. W. J. M. Pessers in D. J. Elzinga Dutch Constit. Monarchy 55 The hereditariness of the office also emphasized the continuity of the power. The king is dead, long live the king.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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