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PARENTAL QUALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A quality appropriate to a parent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("parental quality" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parental quality"):
maternal quality; maternalism; maternity; motherliness (the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother)
fatherliness; paternal quality (the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father)