1. 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"
   - maternalism, maternal quality, maternity

Derived forms: motherlinesses

See also: maternal, motherly

Type of: parental quality

• good weather
• good word
• good-fellowship
• good-for-naught
• good-for-nothing
• good-hearted
• good-humored
• good-humoredly
• good-humoredness
• good-humoured
• good-humouredly
• good-humouredness
• good-king-henry
• good-looking
• good-natured
• good-naturedly
• good-naturedness
• good-neighborliness
• good-neighbourliness
• good-sized
• good-tempered
• good-temperedness
• good-time
• Goodall
• goodby