pregnancy vs parity

parity vs pregnancy

pregnancy and parity both are nouns.

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

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

pregnancy: 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 pregnancy include trouble, gravidation, gravidity, gravidness, gravida, para, eccyesis, ectopic gestation, ectopic pregnancy, extrauterine gestation, extrauterine pregnancy, metacyesis, entopic pregnancy, placenta previa.

pregnancy (noun)	parity (noun)
the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus	functional equality
	(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
	(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 pregnancy and parity

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