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Noun: motherliness
  1. The quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother
    "the girl's motherliness made her invaluable in caring for the children"
    - maternalism, maternal quality, maternity

Derived forms: motherlinesses

See also: maternal, motherly

Type of: parental quality

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