maternity - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother

Synonyms

• maternal quality
• maternalism
• maternity
• motherliness

More generic

• parental quality

Noun

the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother

Synonyms

• maternity
• motherhood

More generic

• family relationship
• kinship
• relationship

Noun

the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus

Synonyms

• gestation
• maternity
• pregnancy

More generic

• physical condition
• physiological condition
• physiological state

More specific

• eccyesis
• ectopic gestation
• ectopic pregnancy
• entopic pregnancy
• extrauterine gestation
• extrauterine pregnancy
• gravida
• gravidation
• gravidity
• gravidness
• metacyesis
• para
• parity
• placenta previa
• trouble

Related

• childbed
• cleavage
• confinement
• labor
• labour
• lying-in
• morning sickness
• parturiency
• quickening
• segmentation
• travail

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