Synonym: hereditary pattern, heritage. Similar words: inherit, inheritor, inhabitant, puritan, heritage, veritable, stance, good samaritan. Meaning: [ɪn'herɪtəns] 
n. 1. hereditary succession to a title or an office or property 2. that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner 3. (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents 4. any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors.
n. 1. hereditary succession to a title or an office or property 2. that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner 3. (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents 4. any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors. 
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(151) The evidence for genetic inheritance is much less strong for the less severe forms of depression.
(152) This is the object-oriented concept of inheritance, that is, characteristics received from an ancestor in a class hierarchy.
(153) In this context, inheritance plays a rather different role from that usually envisaged in discussions of the distribution of wealth.
(154) The reformation in faith is of fundamental importance to all who wish to lay hold on their inheritance of health.
(155) Would there be any likelihood of a future charge under inheritance tax?
(156) Firstly, subdivision, because inheritance is shared between siblings, takes place throughout the region.
(157) It was sparsely furnished, for Anne had only just come into her inheritance, but it was newly decorated and clean.
(158) As the generations go by, under the assumption of blending inheritance, variation is bound to become swamped.
(159) I appreciate that scientists may believe our characteristics and tendencies are passed on by genetic inheritance.
(160) But with inheritance tax levied at 40 per cent on assets totalling over ￡234,000, it's vital everyone has one.
(161) The inheritance of outmoded company structures from the past, reinforced by further concentration, produced very rigid company organisation.
(162) And an invaluable inheritance from lead miner, linen weaver and gentleman scientist.
(163) By the end of June, the Northern Trust Company was trustee of this inheritance also.
(164) It suggested that second marriages would substantially infringe the rights of inheritance of the members of the first family.
(165) They emerge from the apparatus of inheritance, from the ways that genes join forces to do their job.
(166) Approved modules do not behave in this manner with respect to inheritance.
(167) Occasionally, problems with block inheritance or linkage are encountered.
(168) Toolbox controls for creating entities, associations, and inheritance relationships.
(169) Her father had dissipated her inheritance.
(170) We may safely attribute these structures to inheritance. Sentencedict.com
(171) A fifth kind of tax is the inheritance tax.
(172) Abolition of all right of inheritance.
(173) It is compatible with the X-linked recessive inheritance.
(174) Including inheritance laws, property law and creditor's rights law.
(175) The Listener example you instance, has inheritance going on.
(176) Joint inheritance or heirship of property.
(177) The inheritance of resistance to scab seems to be governed by the additive genes in the main, but non-additive genes also exert a significant influence.
(178) Article 52 The people's courts shall, in handling cases concerning inheritance, protect the minors' right of inheritance and right to receive bequeathment according to law.
(179) In particular, it enables members of the director-shareholder's family to sell shares in order to pay inheritance taxes, and thereby avoid having to sell company assets.
(180) After receiving a large inheritance, Alice began to live it up.
More similar words: inherit, inheritor, inhabitant, puritan, heritage, veritable, stance, good samaritan, pittance, substance, instance, distance, reluctance, repentance, assistance, resistance, admittance, for instance, acceptance, importance, stand a chance, circumstance, acquaintance, in the distance, happenstance, of importance, pinhead, inherent, inherently, nonviolent resistance.