Paternity vs Paternal - What's the difference?
paternity | paternal |
fatherhood, being a father
parental descent from a father
(legal) legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child
(figuratively) authorship
Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family
Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
Received or inherited from one's father.
* Dryden
Acting as a father
As a noun paternity
is fatherhood, being a father.As an adjective paternal is
of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family.paternity
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Noun
See also
* maternitypaternal
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Adjective
(en adjective)- paternal grandfather
- their small paternal field of corn
- paternal filicide