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

Derived forms: maternal qualities

See also: maternal

Type of: parental quality

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