inheritance - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

hereditary succession to a title or an office or property

Synonyms

• heritage
• inheritance

More generic

• acquisition

Noun

any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors

Synonyms

• heritage
• inheritance

More generic

• attribute

More specific

• background
• birthright
• upbringing

Noun

(genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents

Synonyms

• hereditary pattern
• inheritance

More generic

• genetic endowment
• heredity

More specific

• X-linked dominant inheritance
• X-linked recessive inheritance
• ancestry
• derivation
• filiation
• gene linkage
• lineage
• linkage

Noun

that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner

Synonyms

• heritage
• inheritance

More generic

• transferred possession
• transferred property

More specific

• accretion
• bequest
• birthright
• borough English
• devise
• heirloom
• legacy
• patrimony
• primogeniture

Related

• heirloom

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