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PATERNAL QUALITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does paternal quality mean?
• PATERNAL QUALITY (noun)
The noun PATERNAL QUALITY has 1 sense:
1. the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father
Familiarity information: PATERNAL QUALITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
fatherliness; paternal quality
Context example:
the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears
Hypernyms ("paternal quality" is a kind of...):
parental quality (a quality appropriate to a parent)
Attribute:
paternal (characteristic of a father)
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