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paternities

paternities is the plural of paternity.

Meaning of paternity

Noun

paternity (countable and uncountable, plural paternities)

  1. Fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.
  2. Parental descent from a father.
  3. Legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child.
  4. (figuratively) Authorship.
    • The author asserted her right to paternity on the book's copyright page.

Questions about paternities

What is paternities the plural of?
Paternities is the plural of paternity.

Words near paternities in the dictionary

  1. paternalizes
  2. paternalizing
  3. paternally
  4. paternalness
  5. paternals
  6. paternities
  7. paternity
  8. paternity leave
  9. paternity leaves
  10. paternity suit
  11. paternity suits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paternities (page history and authors); paternity (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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