paternity vs foundation

foundation vs paternity

paternity and foundation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
paternity	Yes	No	No	No
foundation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, foundation is a hypernym of paternity; that is, foundation is a word with a broader meaning than paternity:

paternity: the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing
foundation: the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new

Other hypernyms of paternity include creation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination.

paternity (noun)	foundation (noun)
the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing	the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
the kinship relation between an offspring and the father	lowest support of a structure
the state of being a father	a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body
	the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
	education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge
	an institution supported by an endowment
	the basis on which something is grounded

Difference between paternity and foundation

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