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Paternity vs Filiation - What's the difference?

paternity | filiation |

As nouns the difference between paternity and filiation

is that paternity is fatherhood, being a father while filiation is the condition of being a child of a specified parent.

paternity

English

Noun

  • fatherhood, being a father
  • parental descent from a father
  • (legal) legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child
  • (figuratively) authorship

    • Related terms

    * paternity leave * paternity suit * paternity test

    See also

    * maternity

    filiation

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The condition of being a child of a specified parent
  • (countable) The ancestry or lineage shared by a group having the same bloodline
  • (countable, legal) The determination of paternity