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momliness

momliness noun: the quality of being momly.

Noun

momliness (uncountable)

  1. (informal) The quality of being momly.
    • Cleanliness is next to momliness1982 August 1, Karen Osman, “Cleanliness is next to momliness”, in The Sunday Pantagraph, Bloomington–Normal, Ill., page Li3
    • “The recipes are chosen not only for taste, but for their ‘momliness,’ a quality they say they can’t define, but everybody knows what it is — usually reflected in a favorite saying that they put on the page with the dates,” Dianne [Shiner] wrote in a letter to The Montana Standard.1994 May 11, “Butte mom, recipe picked for Seattle diner’s calendar”, in The Montana Standard, volume 118, number 344, page C1

Examples of momliness in a sentence

  • But she’s always been a bit of a devil, beneath her momliness.2007, Martin Sanger, edited by John Kenneth Press, Prison Wars: An Inside Account of How the Apocalypse Happened, Social Books:
  • But as I stormed away from Zooey, I couldn’t stop myself from feeling rotten because she was going to miss the special Momliness that should have come along with this.2010, Jane Mendle, My Ultimate Sister Disaster, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, →ISBN, page 92:
  • [Hillary] Clinton, ever the adult in the room, may be doomed by her own sober “momliness.”2016 February 10, Kathleen Parker, “Moving beyond girl power”, in Longview News-Journal, Longview, Tex., page 4A:
  • Having already raised four of her own children that had grown, she’d shared her momliness with Haley, Ryder, and him.2021, Carrie Thorne, A Day Late (Foothills Romance Series; 3), Thorny Books, page 69:

Origin of momliness

From momly + -ness.

Questions about momliness

What does momliness mean?
Momliness means the quality of being momly.
How do you use momliness in a sentence?
But she’s always been a bit of a devil, beneath her momliness.
What part of speech is momliness?
Momliness is a noun.

Words near momliness in the dictionary

  1. momisms
  2. momist
  3. momists
  4. momless
  5. momlike
  6. momliness
  7. momly
  8. momma
  9. momma bear
  10. momma bears
  11. momma grizzlies

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