motherly love
A parent's tenderness
Motherly love is the deep, protective affection a mother feels for her child—nurturing, unconditional, and fiercely devoted.
The phrase evokes tenderness, sacrifice, and an instinct to care for and defend: She showered the orphan with motherly love.
It often serves as a standard against which other forms of love are measured.
- caregivingAttending to dependents
- motherhoodState of being a female parent
- nurturingSupportive care-giving
- tender loving careSolicitous, gentle caregiving
- compassionConcern for others' distress
tenderness · mother figure · empathy · affection · maternal sacrifice · selflessness · protective · devotion · oxytocin · patience · open arms · attachment · comforting · warm embrace · warmth · maternal · bonding · matriarch
- motherhoodmother, mom, mama, mum, mommy
- sayings about motherhoodmama bear, mom guilt, mother hen, mother's milk, empty nest
- loveadoration, affection, amour, attraction, beloved
- fondnessaffection, liking, fondness, tenderness, caring
- Biblical WomenEve, Mary, Ruth, Sarah, Rachel
motherly lovecoldness
Low temperature state
hatred · contempt · cruelty · resentment · loathing
motherly lovedetachment
Separation or emotional uninvolvement
indifference · neglect · apathy · disregard · unconcern
motherly lovechild abuse
Harm inflicted on minors
filicide · child endangerment · maltreatment · harm · destructiveness