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heredities

heredities is the plural of heredity.

Meaning of heredity

Noun

heredity (usually uncountable, plural heredities)

  1. (usually) Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.
    • laws of heredity

Questions about heredities

What is heredities the plural of?
Heredities is the plural of heredity.

Words near heredities in the dictionary

  1. hereditary peer
  2. hereditary peers
  3. hereditas
  4. hereditation
  5. hereditative
  6. heredities
  7. hereditism
  8. hereditist
  9. hereditists
  10. hereditivity
  11. heredity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heredities (page history and authors); heredity (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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