Definition of "hereditariness" []

• The property of being hereditary. (noun)

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• "Here, as elsewhere in tracing hereditariness in so-called functional nervosities, one should take as the unit character for study the mental traits or trends and exclude definite disease entities applied to ancestral disorders."
• "Later, in proportion as the progress of civilization makes itself felt, this hereditariness is wont to be confined to the sovereign."
• "Man's power in making races deends, in the first instance, on the stock on which he works being variable; but his labours are modified and limited, as we have seen, by the direct effects of the external conditions, -- by the deficient or imperfect hereditariness of new peculiarities, -- and by the tendency to continual variation and especially to reversion to ancestral forms."