maternity vs parity

parity vs maternity

maternity and parity both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
maternity	Yes	No	No	No
parity	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, parity is a hyponym of maternity; that is, parity is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than maternity:

maternity: the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus
parity: (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered

Other hyponyms of maternity include trouble, gravidation, gravidity, gravidness, gravida, para, eccyesis, ectopic gestation, ectopic pregnancy, extrauterine gestation, extrauterine pregnancy, metacyesis, entopic pregnancy, placenta previa.

maternity (noun)	parity (noun)
the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother	functional equality
the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother	(physics) parity is conserved in a universe in which the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a left-handed system
the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus	(computer science) a bit that is used in an error detection procedure in which a 0 or 1 is added to each group of bits so that it will have either an odd number of 1's or an even number of 1's; e.g., if the parity is odd then any group of bits that arrives with an even number of 1's must contain an error
	(mathematics) a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity; if one is odd and the other is even they have different parity
	(obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered

Difference between maternity and parity

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