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Meaning of "hereditarian" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HEREDITARIAN

hereditarian  [hɪˌrɛdɪˈtɛərɪən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HEREDITARIAN

noun
adjective
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hereditarian is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HEREDITARIAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hereditarianism

Hereditarianism is the doctrine or school of thought that heredity plays a significant role in determining human nature and character traits, such as intelligence and personality. Hereditarians believe in the power of genetics to explain human character traits and solve human social and political problems. Hereditarians adopt the view that an understanding of human evolution can extend the understanding of human nature. They have explicitly abandoned the standard social science model.

Definition of hereditarian in the English dictionary

The definition of hereditarian in the dictionary is a person who believes in the doctrine of hereditarianism.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HEREDITARIAN


authoritarian
ɔːˌθɒrɪˈtɛərɪən
communitarian
kəˌmjuːnɪˈtɛərɪən
documentarian
ˌdɒkjʊmənˈtɛərɪən
egalitarian
ɪˌɡælɪˈtɛərɪən
flexitarian
ˌflɛksɪˈtɛərɪən
fruitarian
fruːˈtɛərɪən
humanitarian
hjuːˌmænɪˈtɛərɪən
libertarian
ˌlɪbəˈtɛərɪən
nonsectarian
ˌnɒnsɛkˈtɛərɪən
Ontarian
ɒnˈtɛərɪən
parliamentarian
ˌpɑːləmɛnˈtɛərɪən
pescetarian
ˈpɛskəˌtɛərɪən
proletarian
ˌprəʊlɪˈtɛərɪən
sanitarian
ˌsænɪˈtɛərɪən
sectarian
sɛkˈtɛərɪən
Tartarian
tɑːˈtɛərɪən
totalitarian
təʊˌtælɪˈtɛərɪən
unitarian
ˌjuːnɪˈtɛərɪən
utilitarian
juːˌtɪlɪˈtɛərɪən
vegetarian
ˌvɛdʒɪˈtɛərɪən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HEREDITARIAN

hereabout
hereabouts
hereafter
hereat
hereby
heredes
hereditability
hereditable
hereditably
hereditament
hereditaments
hereditarianism
hereditarianist
hereditarily
hereditariness
hereditary
heredities
hereditist
heredity
heredo-familial

WORDS THAT END LIKE HEREDITARIAN

agrarian
antiquarian
aquarian
assistant librarian
barbarian
Bavarian
Brian
Bulgarian
centenarian
contrarian
culinarian
Hungarian
librarian
Maid Marian
Marian
Old Bulgarian
ovarian
quinquagenarian
riparian
school librarian
veterinarian

Synonyms and antonyms of hereditarian in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hereditarian» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HEREDITARIAN

Find out the translation of hereditarian to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hereditarian from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hereditarian» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

hereditarian
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hereditarista
570 millions of speakers

English

hereditarian
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hereditarian
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

hereditarian
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

hereditarian
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hereditariedade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

hereditarian
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

héréditariste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hereditarian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hereditarian
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

hereditarian
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

유전 론적
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hereditarian
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hereditarian
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மரபுநிலைக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वंशावळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hereditarian
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

hereditarian
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hereditarian
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

hereditarian
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

eredităŃii
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κληρονομικότητας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hereditarian
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hereditarian
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hereditarian
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hereditarian

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HEREDITARIAN»

The term «hereditarian» is used very little and occupies the 180.249 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HEREDITARIAN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hereditarian» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hereditarian» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hereditarian

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEREDITARIAN»

Discover the use of hereditarian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hereditarian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Mendelian Revolution: The Emergence of Hereditarian ...
An introduction to the history of genetics and the rethinking of evolutionism.
Peter Bowler, 2000
2
Nature and Nurture: The Complex Interplay of Genetic and ...
Table 1.1 presents one view of the different implications of hereditarian and developmental systems ideas for promoting positive human development through policy and program initiatives. The table displays a 2x2 contingency table that ...
Cynthia Garcia Coll, Elaine L. Bearer, Richard M. Lerner, 2014
3
Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Core Readings
Perspectives on Individual Differences in Intelligence: Hereditarian, Unitary Models versus Multifaceted, Domain-Specific Models of Intelligence The assumptions historically made by researchers in the intelligence testing movement constitute ...
Daniel J. Levitin, 2002
4
Fighting for the Good Cause: Reflections on Francis Galton's ...
Reflections on Francis Galton's Legacy to American Hereditarian Psychology Gerald Sweeney. fully advanced by August Weismann nearly twenty years later. Moreover, indications abound that Galton served as some form of model for these  ...
Gerald Sweeney, 2001
5
Narrative Mutations: Discourses of Heredity and Caribbean ...
Although throughout this study I intend to construct a multifaceted account of or definition for hereditarian discourses, we can begin with the following provisional statement: discourses of heredity encompass ways in whichwritersinthe ...
Rudyard Alcocer, 2011
6
The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control ...
primarily in an optimistic, perfectionist vein to demonstrate the possibilities of improvement of the buman condition; it did not distinguish environmental from reproductive control. The looseness and flexibility of this pre-Men- delian hereditarian ...
Linda Gordon, 2002
7
Arthur Jensen: Consensus And Controversy
As Urbach himself argues, no single practictioner of the hereditarian program adheres to it in its starkest form. This is also true for Jensen. While he would agree with the first proposition, he would not agree with the second. He would argue ...
Sohan Modgil, Celia Modgil, 2005
8
Foundations of Education
Those who took this hereditarian view of intelligence thought that IQ tests and similar instruments measured innate differences, present from birth, in people's capacity. When economically disadvantaged groups and some minority groups, ...
Allan Ornstein, Daniel U. Levine, Gerry Gutek, 2010
9
Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times
The muting of racist, raciological, and hereditarian voices cannot be attributed to new discoveries damaging to the raciological and hereditarian positions. What tipped the balance toward the Boasians were the events that were sweeping the  ...
Marvin Harris, 1999
10
Eugenics: hereditarian attitudes in American thought
hereditarian attitudes in American thought Mark H. Haller. human progress came only through a struggle of class against class, in which the superior classes won, and through a struggle of race against race, in which the higher races ...
Mark H. Haller, 1963

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEREDITARIAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hereditarian is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Genes Made Us Do It
To be fair, Wade has an underlying model, derived from the work of a radical hereditarian economist named Gregory Clark. Wade summarizes:. «In These Times, May 14»
2
Race, Genetics, And Nicholas Wade
Its strange that anti-hereditarian ideologies get a pass. After all, the Lamarkian Soviet Union killed more people than the Nazis did. M_Young ... «The American Conservative, May 14»
3
Where Have All the Geniuses Gone?
Even the arch-hereditarian and theorist of the all-governing "g-factor," Charles Spearman, observed that "every normal man, woman, and child ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct 13»
4
Is Miller really sorry?
... and “short-sighted” to “nurse their anti-hereditarian political correctness to the bitter end”—all opinions that have made Miller quite unpopular ... «The Hindu, Jun 13»
5
Scientific racism rears its ugly head once again
The hereditarian theory of intelligence, for example, continues to be perpetuated through the work of Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, ... «Aljazeera.com, May 13»
6
The Inside Story of The Harvard Dissertation That Became Too …
A longtime veteran of the race and IQ wars, Jencks' position in the controversy is quite different from Murray's. Unlike Murray, a “hereditarian” ... «ThinkProgress, May 13»
7
Top Conservative Publication Defends Linking Hispanics To Low IQ
... expelling from polite society — with the help of a conservative think tank in this case — any researcher who dares to defend the hereditarian ... «ThinkProgress, May 13»
8
Michael Rossi
Nancy Segal's Born Together – Reared Apart tells the story of one effort to return to hereditarian accounts: the Minnesota Study of Twins ... «London Review of Books, Jan 13»
9
Pedophiles: born that way?
Many of my liberal readers and friends have expressed the position that if a hereditarian position was true for a range of issue that that would ... «Discover Magazine, Sep 12»
10
Let's Recap The 'DNA Games': At The London Olympics …
This is uncontroversial and incontrovertible science even to anti-hereditarian ideologues. British biologist Steven Rose, one of the world's most ... «Science 2.0, Aug 12»

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