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maternity
Overview of noun maternity
The noun maternity has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. pregnancy, gestation, maternity -- (the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus)
2. motherhood, maternity -- (the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother)
3. motherliness, maternalism, maternal quality, maternity -- (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/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun maternity
3 senses of maternity
Sense 1
pregnancy, gestation, maternity
=> physiological state, physiological condition
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
motherhood, maternity
=> kinship, family relationship, relationship
=> relation
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
motherliness, maternalism, maternal quality, maternity
=> parental quality
=> quality
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun maternity
1 of 3 senses of maternity
Sense 1
pregnancy, gestation, maternity
=> trouble
=> gravidity, gravidness, gravidation
=> gravida
=> parity, para
=> ectopic pregnancy, extrauterine pregnancy, ectopic gestation, extrauterine gestation, eccyesis, metacyesis
=> entopic pregnancy
=> placenta previa
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun maternity
3 senses of maternity
Sense 1
pregnancy, gestation, maternity
=> physiological state, physiological condition
Sense 2
motherhood, maternity
=> kinship, family relationship, relationship
Sense 3
motherliness, maternalism, maternal quality, maternity
=> parental quality
Antonyms of noun maternity
Member Holonyms of noun maternity
Substance Holonyms of noun maternity
Part Holonyms of noun maternity
Member Meronyms of noun maternity
Substance Meronyms of noun maternity
Part Meronyms of noun maternity
1 of 3 senses of maternity
Sense 1
pregnancy, gestation, maternity
HAS PART: cleavage, segmentation
HAS PART: quickening
HAS PART: parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
HAS PART: morning sickness
Meronyms of noun maternity
1 of 3 senses of maternity
Sense 1
pregnancy, gestation, maternity
HAS PART: cleavage, segmentation
HAS PART: quickening
HAS PART: parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
HAS PART: morning sickness
Holonyms of noun maternity
Attributes of noun maternity
1 of 3 senses of maternity
Sense 3
motherliness, maternalism, maternal quality, maternity
=> maternal (vs. paternal)
Derived Forms of noun maternity
1 of 3 senses of maternity
Sense 3
motherliness, maternalism, maternal quality, maternity
RELATED TO>(adj) maternal#1
=> maternal
Domain of noun maternity
Domain Terms of noun maternity
1 of 3 senses of maternity
Sense 1
pregnancy, gestation, maternity
TOPIC TERM>(noun) fetal movement#1, foetal movement#1
TOPIC TERM>(noun) amniocentesis#1, amnio#1
TOPIC TERM>(noun) stretch mark#1
TOPIC TERM>(noun) endometrium#1
TOPIC TERM>(noun) phlebothrombosis#1, venous thrombosis#1
Familiarity of noun maternity
maternity used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun maternity
3 senses of maternity
Sense 1
pregnancy, gestation, maternity
> physiological state, physiological condition
=> wakefulness
=> bloodiness
=> incompatibility
=> acathexia
=> angiotelectasia
=> torpor, torpidity
=> agalactia, agalactosis
=> anesthesia, anaesthesia
=> anhidrosis, anhydrosis
=> arousal
=> sleep, slumber
=> sleep, sopor
=> drive
=> elastosis
=> flatulence, flatulency, gas
=> flexure, flection, flexion
=> estrus, oestrus, heat, rut
=> anestrus, anestrum, anoestrus, anoestrum
=> hypercapnia, hypercarbia
=> hypocapnia, acapnia
=> asphyxia
=> oxygen debt
=> hyperthermia, hyperthermy
=> normothermia
=> hypothermia
=> muscularity
=> myasthenia
=> sterility, infertility
=> false pregnancy, pseudocyesis
=> pregnancy, gestation, maternity
=> rigor mortis
=> vitalization, vitalisation
=> good health, healthiness
=> fertility, fecundity
=> potency, potence
=> cellularity
=> addiction, dependence, dependance, dependency, habituation
=> suspended animation
=> cryptobiosis
=> dilatation, distension, distention
=> emmetropia
=> sedation
=> hyperpigmentation
=> hypopigmentation
=> amyxia
=> cold sweat
=> obstruction, blockage
=> poisoning, toxic condition, intoxication
=> analgesia
=> oligospermia
Sense 2
motherhood, maternity
> kinship, family relationship, relationship
=> affinity, phylogenetic relation
=> descent, line of descent, lineage, filiation
=> affinity
=> consanguinity, blood kinship, cognation
=> parentage, birth
=> fatherhood, paternity
=> motherhood, maternity
=> sisterhood, sistership
=> brotherhood
=> marital relationship, marital bed
Sense 3
motherliness, maternalism, maternal quality, maternity
> parental quality
=> motherliness, maternalism, maternal quality, maternity
=> fatherliness, paternal quality
Meronyms of noun maternity
3 senses of maternity
Sense 1
pregnancy, gestation, maternity
HAS PART: cleavage, segmentation
HAS PART: quickening
HAS PART: parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
HAS PART: uterine contraction
HAS PART: effacement
HAS PART: asynclitism, obliquity
HAS PART: morning sickness
Holonyms of noun maternity
Grep of noun maternity
maternity
maternity hospital
maternity ward
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