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Paternity vs Filiety - What's the difference?

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Paternity is a see also of filiety.


As nouns the difference between paternity and filiety

is that paternity is fatherhood, being a father while filiety is (rare) the relation of a son to a father; sonship.

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

    filiety

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rare) The relation of a son to a father; sonship
  • *1843 , John Stewart Mill, A System of Logic , vol. 1:
  • *:The paternity of A and the filiety of B are not two facts, but two modes of expressing the same fact.

    • Synonyms

    *filiation

    See also

    *paternity