paternity
/pəˈtɜɹnəti/ noun C1- Fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.
- Parental descent from a father.
- Legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child.
- Authorship. · The author asserted her right to paternity on the book's copyright page.
Plural paternities
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