MATERNAL QUALITY
Dictionary entry overview: What does maternal quality mean? • MATERNAL QUALITY (noun)
The noun MATERNAL QUALITY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother
Familiarity information: MATERNAL QUALITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MATERNAL QUALITY (noun)
Meaning:
The quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
maternal quality; maternalism; motherliness; maternity
Context example:
the girl's motherliness made her invaluable in caring for the children
Hypernyms ("maternal quality" is a kind of...):
parental quality (a quality appropriate to a parent)
Attribute:
maternal (characteristic of a mother)
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