FATHERLINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fatherliness mean? 

• FATHERLINESS (noun)
  The noun FATHERLINESS has 1 sense:

1. the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father

  Familiarity information: FATHERLINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FATHERLINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fatherliness; paternal quality

Context example:

the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears

Hypernyms ("fatherliness" is a kind of...):

parental quality (a quality appropriate to a parent)

Attribute:

paternal (characteristic of a father)

Derivation:

fatherly (like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective)