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What is the adjective for maternalness?

What's the adjective for maternalness? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs maternalise and maternalize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

maternal
  1. Of or pertaining to a mother; having the characteristics of a mother, motherly.
  2. Related through the mother, or her side of the family.
  3. (anatomy) Derived from the mother as opposed to the foetus during pregnancy.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Espying her son, now released, in the distance, she is unable to contain her maternal joy.”
      “I miss my maternal grandmother dearly, as she was truly the heart and soul of our family.”
      “Middleton says she felt a strong jolt of maternal love when she looked at the first picture of her ultrasound scan.”
maternalised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of maternalise
maternalising
  1. present participle of maternalise
maternalized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of maternalize
maternalizing
  1. present participle of maternalize
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