Heritage vs. Hereditary — What's the Difference?

Property that is or may be inherited; an inheritance

(of a title, office, or right) conferred by or based on inheritance

A special or individual possession; an allotted portion

(of a set) defined such that every element which has a given relation to a member of the set is also a member of the set.

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

Of or relating to heredity or inheritance.

Property that is or can be inherited; an inheritance.

Transmitted or capable of being transmitted genetically from parent to offspring

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

Passed down from one generation to the next

The status acquired by a person through birth; a birthright

Being such or possessed by reason of birth

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

Capable of being inherited.

An inheritance; property that may be inherited.

Descending from an ancestor to a legal heir; passing down by inheritance.

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

Having title or possession through inheritance.

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

Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.

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

Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.

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

Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.

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

Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes.

Practices that are handed down from the past by tradition;

(math) Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.

Any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors;

A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.

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

Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.

Hereditary succession to a title or an office or property

Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease.

Tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity;

Inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent;