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MATERNAL-INFANT BONDING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The attachment that forms between an infant and its mother beginning at birth
Example:
maternal-infant bonding influences the child's psychological and physical development
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("maternal-infant bonding" is a kind of...):
bonding (a close personal relationship that forms between people (as between husband and wife or parent and child))
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