fatherliness

Definitions of fatherliness
  1. noun
    the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father
    “the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears”
    synonyms: paternal quality
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    type of:
    parental quality
    a quality appropriate to a parent
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