Hereditary vs Heritable - What's the difference?
hereditary | heritable | Synonyms |
which is passed on as inheritance, by last will or intestate
(of a title, honor or right) legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
(of a person) holding a legally hereditary title or rank
(of a disease or trait) passed from a parent to offspring in the genes
A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.
able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children
* 1791: Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man
* 1909: Albert Charles Seward, Darwin and Modern Science
Hereditary is a synonym of heritable.
As adjectives the difference between hereditary and heritable
is that hereditary is which is passed on as inheritance, by last will or intestate while heritable is able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children.As a noun hereditary
is a hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the house of lords.hereditary
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.
- hereditary rulers
- ''Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.
Derived terms
* hereditariness * hereditarily * hereditary disease * hereditary peerNoun
(hereditaries)See also
* congenitalheritable
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Adjective
(-)- All hereditary government is in its nature tyranny. An heritable' crown, or an '''heritable''' throne, or by what other fanciful name such things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are ' heritable property.
- But if we consider that all heritable variations must have their roots in the germ-plasm, and further, that when personal selection does not intervene, ...