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descent has 20 distinct synonyms spread across 4 of its 6 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is ascent.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
properties attributable to your ancestry
“he comes from good origins”
the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
a downward slope or bend
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for descent come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.