hereditary condition

Questions about hereditary condition

What is another word for hereditary condition?

It depends which hereditary condition you mean. In the sense “a disease or disorder that is inherited genetically”, the synonyms are genetic disease, genetic disorder, genetic abnormality, genetic defect, congenital disease, inherited disease, inherited disorder, hereditary disease. Across all 1 sense there are 8 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of hereditary condition?

WordNet records no antonym for hereditary condition. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for hereditary condition come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of hereditary condition

• Full entry for hereditary conditionAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for hereditary conditionWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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