What's the difference between motherish and motherliness?

Motherish


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Motherliness


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  • (n.) The state or quality of being motherly.

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  • (1) a motherliness without the obligation to produce children, is introduced here as a possible therapeutic and social criticism.
  • (2) Contemporary contributions to the psychology of women have emphasized concepts of gender and sexual identity, body image and self-representation, psychosexual response and empathic motherliness, etc.
  • (3) Those of high school and university age also seemed to feel that their mothers and fathers and society desired more motherliness of them than they, themselves, desired.
  • (4) Sinead O'Connor may have meant it "in the spirit of motherliness and love"; Cyrus didn't quite see it that way .

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