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maternity

English

  1. 🔊 the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother
  2. 🔊 the state of being pregnant
  3. 🔊 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”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 maternidad maternity

Similar words

motherliness maternalism maternal quality motherhood pregnancy gestation affiliation agnation alliance ancestry blood blood relationship brotherhood brothership cognation common ancestry common descent connection consanguinity cousinhood cousinship enation fatherhood filiation