Dictionary Definition
paternity
Noun
1 the state of being a father; "tests were
conducted to determine paternity"
2 the kinship relation between an offspring and
the father [syn: fatherhood]
3 the act of initiating a new idea or theory or
writing; "the authorship of the theory is disputed" [syn: authorship]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
paternity- fatherhood, being a father
- parental descent from the father's side
Translations
fatherhood See fatherhoodparental descent from father's side
Related terms
See also
Extensive Definition
Paternity may refer to:
- Paternity (biology and medicine), the biological / genetic descendency of an offspring to its male parent (sexually reproducing species)
- Paternity (law), the legal acknowledgment of the parental relationship between a father and his child
- Paternity (House episode), an episode of the television series House
- Paternity (film), a 1981 film starring Burt Reynolds
paternity in Czech: Otcovství
paternity in French: Paternité
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
affiliation, agnation, alliance, ancestry, blood, blood relationship,
brotherhood,
brothership,
cognation, common
ancestry, common descent, connection, consanguinity, cousinhood, cousinship, descent, enation, extraction, family, fatherhood, fatherliness, filiation, fraternity, heritage, kindred, kinship, line, lineage, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, parentage, paternalness, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, propinquity, relation, relationship, sibship, sisterhood, sistership, stock, strain, ties of
blood