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 .