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What is the adjective for inheritableness?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb inherit which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

hereditary
  1. Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
  2. Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
  3. Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.
  4. Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes
  5. (mathematics) Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. genetic, congenital, genealogical, genetical, inborn, innate, inherent, inbred, inherited, inheritable, heritable, transmissible, patrimonial, maternal, paternal, in the family, in the blood, in the genes, handed down, natural, ingrained, native, intrinsic, instinctive, built-in, connate, constitutional, immanent, indigenous, connatural, hardwired, essential, instinctual, integral, engrained, constitutive, ingrain, hard-wired, intuitive, inbuilt, deep-rooted, deep-seated, fundamental, basic, organic, indwelling, unlearned, in your blood, characteristic, primal … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “Experiments have been performed on rats with hereditary diabetes.”
      “With the help of Lin, Chu finally recovers her family's hereditary mansion.”
      “In that case, the officeholder never had a hereditary right to the office.”
inheritable
  1. That can be inherited.
  2. Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. genetic, inborn, inherited, hereditary, genetical, heritable, transmissible, transferable, innate, genealogical, natural, congenital, inherent, inbred, patrimonial, handed down, in the genes, in the blood, in the family, maternal, paternal, connate, rooted, organic, passed down, eugenic, genomic, chromosomal, abiogenetic, sporogenous, historical, native, xenogenetic, genital, phytogenetic, ancestral, genesiological, digenetic, matriclinous, ethnic, ingrained, intrinsic, instinctive, built-in, constitutional, immanent, indigenous, connatural, hardwired, essential … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “An action of the environment on the organism to produce selectable and inheritable variation would solve a number of problems for Darwin.”
      “First, reproductive cloning and inheritable genetic modification should be banned.”
      “This suggests the existence of inheritable traits connected with tolerance of submergence that apply to a wide range of conditions.”
inherited
  1. Obtained via an inheritance
  2. hereditary.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. genetic, inborn, hereditary, inheritable, genetical, heritable, innate, inbred, congenital, natural, connate, organic, rooted, handed down, passed down, in the blood, in the genes, inherent, ingrained, native, intrinsic, built-in, connatural, indigenous, instinctive, constitutional, immanent, engrained, hardwired, essential, instinctual, integral, hard-wired, constitutive, ingrain, intuitive, deep-rooted, deep-seated, inbuilt, in the family, unacquired, basic, fundamental, unlearned, indwelling, genealogical, in your blood, elemental, transmissible, original … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “From that moment, Lucretia would be viewed by many as a criminal, for the common psychological thinking of the time held that criminality was an inherited trait.”
      “In the past, inherited heirloom jewelry would have been worn by mothers and their eligible daughters to signal the wealth of the family to interested suitors.”
heritable
  1. able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children
  2. Synonyms:
      3. genetic, inborn, inherited, hereditary, inheritable, genetical, transmissible, transferable, innate, genealogical, natural, congenital, inherent, inbred, patrimonial, handed down, in the genes, in the blood, in the family, maternal, paternal, connate, rooted, organic, passed down, eugenic, genomic, chromosomal, abiogenetic, sporogenous, historical, native, xenogenetic, genital, phytogenetic, ancestral, genesiological, digenetic, matriclinous, ethnic, ingrained, intrinsic, instinctive, built-in, constitutional, immanent, indigenous, connatural, hardwired, essential … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “All titles were heritable and followed the male line of descent almost exclusively.”
      “In this species, male courtship drumming has been shown to be an honest indicator of heritable viability.”
      “He points out that multiple prion-based heritable states can propagate independently within one cell.”
heredodegenerative
  1. (pathology) hereditary and degenerative
hereditable
  1. Capable of being inherited.
inhereditary
  1. Hereditary.
heirless
  1. Without an heir.
  2. Examples:
      3. “I didn't invest sixteen years of my life and money to raise an ungrateful heirless brat!”
      “Despite the controversy, order was kept until an assassin's blaster took the prince's life, and the queen died heirless just days later.”
      “The Princess was elderly, heirless and living in genteel poverty.”
inheriting
  1. present participle of inherit
  2. Synonyms:
      3. getting, acquiring, obtaining, coming by, coming to have, coming into possession of, receiving, gaining, earning, winning, coming into, coming in for, taking possession of, taking receipt of, buying, purchasing, procuring, possessing oneself of, securing, gathering, collecting, picking up, appropriating, amassing, building up, hooking, netting, landing, achieving, attaining, getting hold of, getting hands on, grabbing, bagging, getting one's hands on, getting one's mitts on, scoring, snagging, gleaning, nabbing, collaring, having, copping, latching onto, racking up, accessing, locking up, swinging, taking, reaping … more
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