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genealogy vs parentage

parentage vs genealogy

genealogy and parentage both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
genealogy Yes No No No
parentage Yes No No No
As nouns, parentage is a hyponym of genealogy; that is, parentage is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than genealogy:
  • genealogy: successive generations of kin
  • parentage: the hereditary derivation of an individual
Other hyponyms of genealogy include ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, pedigree, stemma, stock.
genealogy (noun) parentage (noun)
the study or investigation of ancestry and family history the hereditary derivation of an individual
successive generations of kin the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
the state of being a parent
Difference between genealogy and parentage

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