PATERNITY Synonyms
There are 16 hypernyms of the word paternity. (close relations)
Best Alternative Words for PATERNITY
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| fatherhood | nounn | |||||||
noun • God when considered as the first person in the Trinity • the kinship relation between an offspring and the father • the status of a religious leader • the status of a father | ||||||||
| fatherliness | nounn | |||||||
noun • the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father | ||||||||
| parentage | nounn | |||||||
noun • the state of being a parent • the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents • the hereditary derivation of an individual | ||||||||
| begetting | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
verb • make (offspring) by reproduction | ||||||||
| fathering | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) • `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military • the founder of a family • (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom • God when considered as the first person in the Trinity • a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization • a person who founds or establishes some institution • the head of an organized crime family verb • make (offspring) by reproduction | ||||||||
| authorship | nounn | |||||||
noun • the act of creating written works • the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing | ||||||||
