Similar words: miserliness, orderliness, surliness, motherless, underline, power line, borderline, feeder line. Meaning: ['mʌðər‚lɪnɪs] 
n. the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother.
n. the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother. 1. I feel an obscure resentment against her motherliness.
2. The girl's motherliness made her invaluable in caring for the children.
3. A vietnamese mother kindly glanced at her beloved baby. The power of motherliness is huge. In a church, Beijing.
4. The feelings or characteristics associated with being a mother; motherliness.
5. She was a lady in her fifties, with sensibly cut white-blonde hair and a pair of plastic-framed spectacles. There was about her a pervading air of kindness and motherliness.
More similar words: miserliness, orderliness, surliness, motherless, underline, power line, borderline, feeder line, timberline, number line, berlin airlift, motherly, holiness, ugliness, motherland, godliness, comeliness, loneliness, silliness, manliness, berlin, merlin, mother lode, liveliness, likeliness, loveliness, unruliness, kingliness, timeliness, ghostliness.