Synonyms for maternity
məˈtɜr nɪ tima·ter·ni·ty

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1. maternitynoun

   Antonyms:
   paternity

2. maternitynoun

   Antonyms:
   paternity

3. maternitynoun

   Antonyms:
   paternity

4. maternitynoun

   A ward or department in a hospital in which babies are born.

   Synonyms:
   maternity ward

   Antonyms:
   paternity

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1. pregnancy, gestation, maternitynoun

   the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus

   Synonyms:
   maternal quality, motherliness, motherhood, gestation period, pregnancy, maternalism, gestation

2. motherhood, maternitynoun

   the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother

   Synonyms:
   gestation, maternalism, maternal quality, motherliness, motherhood, pregnancy

3. motherliness, maternalism, maternal quality, maternitynoun

   the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother

   "the girl's motherliness made her invaluable in caring for the children"

   Synonyms:
   maternal quality, maternalism, gestation, motherliness, motherhood, pregnancy

Matched Categories

1. • Kinship
   • Physical Condition

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1. List of paraphrases for "maternity":

   motherhood, maternal, childbirth, pregnancy, childbearing, obstetric, maternity-leave, paternity

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1. Karen Dunn:

   Huma Abedin is widely known as one of the hardest working and most dedicated public servants over the nearly two decades she served. The IG's report is fundamentally flawed, including contradicting its own conclusion by proving that Huma worked hard even while on maternity leave, no hardworking, dedicated public servant should be subjected to irresponsible allegations based on a fundamentally flawed report and the State Department has undertaken a review of the report. Huma has been nothing but cooperative in helping the Department work through its record keeping issues, and she will continue to do so in the hope the right thing is done.

2. The ILO:

   Protective measures should include action taken to ensure that a woman worker does not lose her job during pregnancy and that maternity is not a source of discrimination.

3. Lindsay Davenport:

   I hope players now feel that (coming back to play after having children) is an option. For a long time it didn't feel like that was an option, they feel like they've got to quit by 29 to be able to have a family. Now it's wonderful for them to be able to look at (playing on following a maternity break) as a possibility.

4. Hillary Clinton:

   Really? Take away maternity care? who do these people talk to?

5. Former President George W. Bush:

   I think the most meaningful moment for me was going to a maternity ward in Namibia, seeing a roomful of ladies, most of whom — if not all — had the AIDS virus, and every one of their babies was born without AIDS. Mother-to-child transmission efforts of PEPFAR have been unbelievably successful.