Heritage vs. Descent — What's the Difference?

Property that is or may be inherited; an inheritance

An act of moving downwards, dropping, or falling

A special or individual possession; an allotted portion

The origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality

Christians, or the ancient Israelites, seen as God's chosen people.

A sudden violent attack

Property that is or can be inherited; an inheritance.

The act or an instance of descending

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

A way down

The status acquired by a person through birth; a birthright

A downward incline or passage; a slope

A domesticated animal or a crop of a traditional breed, usually not widely produced for commercial purposes.

Hereditary derivation; lineage

An inheritance; property that may be inherited.

The fact or process of being derived or developing from a source

A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory.

(Law) Transmission of property, especially real estate, to a hereditary heir by an intestate owner.

A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.

A lowering or decline, as in status or level

(attributive) Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.

A sudden visit or attack; an onslaught

That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance.

An instance of descending; act of coming down.

A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge.

A way down.

Practices that are handed down from the past by tradition;

A sloping passage or incline.

Any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors;

Lineage or hereditary derivation.

That which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner

A drop to a lower status or condition; decline. en

Hereditary succession to a title or an office or property

A falling upon or invasion.

(topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing. See Descent (mathematics).

The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; - often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.

Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.

Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.

Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.

Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.

That which is descended; descendants; issue.

A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.

Lowest place; extreme downward place.

A movement downward

Properties attributable to your ancestry;

The act of changing your location in a downward direction

The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

A downward slope or bend

The descendants of one individual;