paternity

About 0.96 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.
2. noun Parental descent from a father.
3. noun Legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child.
4. noun Authorship.

   The author asserted her right to paternity on the book's copyright page.

Similar words

fatherhood father parental parenthood dad paternal filiation maternity parenting parentage

Often followed by

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Word family

paternities