relationship vs parentage

parentage vs relationship

relationship and parentage both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
relationship	Yes	No	No	No
parentage	Yes	No	No	No

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

relationship: (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
parentage: the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents

Other hyponyms of relationship include affinity, phylogenetic relation, descent, filiation, line of descent, lineage, affinity, blood kinship, cognation, consanguinity, birth, fatherhood, paternity, maternity, motherhood, sisterhood, sistership, brotherhood, marital bed, marital relationship.

relationship (noun)	parentage (noun)
a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness)	the hereditary derivation of an individual
(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption	the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)	the state of being a parent
a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries

Difference between relationship and parentage

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