parity vs maternity

maternity vs parity

parity and maternity both are nouns.

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

As nouns, maternity is a hypernym of parity; that is, maternity is a word with a broader meaning than parity:

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

Other hypernyms of parity include gestation, pregnancy.

parity (noun)	maternity (noun)
functional equality	the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a 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 kinship relation between an offspring and the mother
(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	the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus
(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 parity and maternity

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