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" पर्याय: motherliness, maternalism, maternal quality,
the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother पर्याय: motherhood,
the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus पर्याय: pregnancy, gestation,