Familyhood

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being a family. uncountable

    "Now the supreme fact of his childhood, as of the childhood of most of us, was familyhood, which had conditioned and determined all his early life."

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"Now the supreme fact of his childhood, as of the childhood of most of us, was familyhood, which had conditioned and determined all his early life."

Etymology

From family + -hood.

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