paternity[noun]Synonyms:- fatherhood
- parentage, descent, extraction, family, lineage
[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
pa‧ter‧ni‧ty /pəˈtɜːnəti, pəˈtɜːnɪti $ -ɜːr-/
noun [uncountable] law the fact of being the father of a particular child, or the question of who the child’s father is:
The paternity of the child is in dispute. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲