maternal
adjective
of, pertaining to, having the qualities of, or befitting a mother.
maternalism
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a word derived from
maternal.
Example Sentences
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Whether a melodramatic comment on art and anarchy, or a wild experiment in toxic maternalism, the film feels like a fever that just won’t break.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2021
It would have been easy to overdo Richard’s grouchiness, Rachel’s volatility or Sadie’s blithe, oversharing sense of entitlement, or to turn Charlie and Cynthia into cartoons of blundering dadness and high-flying helicopter maternalism.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2018
Knitting’s seemingly innocuous connections with domesticity, maternalism, hearth, and home have made it a useful tool for women dispossessed of political voice.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2018
The drive for state maternalism is not primarily the work of doctrinaires, Marxist or otherwise; it is a distillation of the bitter experience of Bevan and his comrades.
From Time Magazine Archive
Esmé patted the other's head with an absurd and delightful affectation of maternalism.
From The Clarion by William Dodge Stevens
