Motherhood

n.

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The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.

Noun

1.

motherhood - the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother Synonyms: maternity

affiliation, agnation, alliance, ancestry, blood, blood relationship, brotherhood, brothership, cognation, common ancestry, common descent, connection, consanguinity, cousinhood, cousinship, enation, fatherhood, filiation, fraternity, kindred, kinship, maternalness, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherliness, mothership, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, propinquity, relation, relationship, sibship, sisterhood, sistership, ties of blood