auntliness

Noun

auntliness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being auntly.
   • In the good old days no family was complete without a spinster aunt to turn to in seasons of distress and grief, measles, whooping-cough, visiting, absence of parents, or unexpected company. More than any other woman, possibly, the spinster aunt has become New.[…]As a type of auntliness she is no...1895 May 7, “The Vanishing Spinster Aunt”, in Boston Evening Transcript, Boston, Mass.: The Boston Transcript Company, page 4
   • Rather, being the sole survivor of her own family, and sister of Mr. Branksome’s late father, she became “great” in her auntliness so far as the second generation was concerned, and adopted a grandmotherly attitude towards them, which aroused the enduring scorn of their maternal grandmother.1919, Sydney Cope Morgan, “Aunt Susan”, in When Leaves were Green, Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd.; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., page 98