| Paternity 1. (n.) The relation of a father to his child; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity. 2. (n.) Derivation or descent from a father; male parentage; as, the paternity of a child. 3. (n.) Origin; authorship. Thesaurus Entries affiliation, agnation, alliance, ancestry, blood, blood relationship, brotherhood, brothership, cognation, common ancestry, common descent, connection, consanguinity, cousinhood, cousinship, descent, enation, extraction, family, fatherhood, fatherliness, filiation, fraternity, heritage, kindred, kinship, line, lineage, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, parentage, paternalness, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, propinquity, relation, relationship, sibship, sisterhood, sistership, stock, strain, ties of blood |