hereditability

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noun

The quality of being hereditable.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

nounhereditability (countable and uncountable, plural hereditabilities)

plural hereditabilities

  1. countableuncountableThe quality of being hereditable.

    If personal merit be set up as the plea, then the quality of hereditability must be abandoned

    1834, Egerton Brydges, The autobiography, times, opinions and contemporaries of Sir Egerton Brydges
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