Daddishness

Tempted as I was to believe that interindividual and cultural differences in "caddishness" and "daddishness" simply reflect a genetic difference as straightforward as that seen in voles, the chapters on behavioral genetics disabused me of that notion

It was good to see his thick grey hair, his warm blue eyes (so like her own), his quietly amused expression and his general, all-round daddishness.

But I think that was the very reason he recoiled: your insistence, your crowding, your wanting, your cajoling, chummy Daddishness.