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Maternalism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The treatment of people in a motherly manner, especially by caring for them as a mother would care for her children. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    motherly care; behavior characteristic of a mother; the practice of acting as a mother does toward her children wordnet
  3. 3
    the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother wordnet

Etymology

From maternal + -ism.

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