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inhæritance

inhæritance is the obsolete form of inheritance.

Meaning of inheritance

Noun

inheritance (countable and uncountable, plural inheritances)

  1. The passing of title to an estate upon death.
  2. (countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament, such as the part of an estate (i.e., a portion).
  3. (especially, uncountable) The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited.
    • The Indo-European languages share various similarities as a result of their inheritance from a common ancestor.
  4. (genetic algorithms) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
  5. (object-oriented programming) The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

Questions about inhæritance

What is inhæritance the obsolete form of?
Inhæritance is the obsolete form of inheritance.

Words near inhæritance in the dictionary

  1. inhæred
  2. inhærent
  3. inhærently
  4. inhæres
  5. inhæring
  6. inhæritance
  7. inhæsion
  8. inia
  9. iniac
  10. iniad
  11. inial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inhæritance (page history and authors); inheritance (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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