hereditary disease

Questions about hereditary disease

What is another word for hereditary disease?

It depends which hereditary disease 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 condition. 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 disease?

WordNet records no antonym for hereditary disease. 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 disease 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 disease

• Full entry for hereditary diseaseAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for hereditary diseaseWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.