hereditabilityn.
/hᵻˌrɛdᵻtəˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /həˌrɛdədəˈbɪlᵻdi/ = heritability n.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > heritable property > quality of being
hereditability1798
heritability1832
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > capability of
hereditariness1640
descendibility1765
heredity1773
inheritableness1780
inheritability1784
hereditability1798
descendability1830
heritability1832
the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun]
heredity1844
hereditation1845
inheritance1859
heritability1882
hereditability1895
1798 F. A. Winsor Addr. Sovereigns of Europe II. 45/2 Decree, respecting the King's inviolability; of the indivisibility and hereditability of the crown of France.
1834 S. E. Brydges Autobiogr. II. iii. 50 If personal merit be set up as the plea, then the quality of hereditability must be abandoned; for why is not the son of an old peer as likely to have personal merit as the son of a parvenu?
1895 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 394 Teratological abnormities resemble neuropathies..in their origin and the characteristics of their hereditability.
1932 E. Paul & C. Paul tr. H. Iltis Life of Mendel xxi. 309 The three propositions, namely that the characters have a regular quantivalence in respect of dimension, number, and hereditability..form the nucleus of the mendelian doctrine.
1973 Sci. & Society 37 285 This is the molecular basis for impossibility of hereditability of acquired characteristics.
2009 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 25 Apr. ii. 13 The many studies demonstrating not just a strong association between mood disorders and creativity, but high degrees of hereditability of both.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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