partible

With partible paternity, the woman’s role in producing babies is typically downgraded, unsurprisingly, to “receptacle.”

There was co-operation in working the fields but no communistic division of the crops, and the individual's hold upon his strips developed rapidly into an inheritable and partible ownership.

Associated word: cordon. separable, a. divisible, detachable, severable, partible.

Antonyms: See impartial. partiality, n. bias, favoritism; predilection, inclination, fondness, predisposition, bent. partible, a. separable, divisible, detachable, dissoluble, severable.