PARENTAL QUALITY

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Meaning:

A quality appropriate to a parent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("parental quality" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parental quality"):

maternal quality; maternalism; maternity; motherliness (the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother)

fatherliness; paternal quality (the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father)