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Heritable vs Inherited - What's the difference?

heritable | inherited |

As adjectives the difference between heritable and inherited

is that heritable is able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children while inherited is obtained via an inheritance.

As a verb inherited is

(inherit).

heritable

English

Adjective

(-)
  • able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children
  • * 1791: Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man
    • 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.
  • * 1909: Albert Charles Seward, Darwin and Modern Science
    • 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, ...

    Synonyms

    * inheritable

    inherited

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (inherit)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Obtained via an inheritance
  • Diseases and disorders which are hereditary.