MATERNAL QUALITY

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 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)

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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; maternity; motherliness

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)