paternal quality stands for: the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father
Usage Example(s): the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears
Synonym(s): fatherliness ( what does fatherliness stand for? )
paternal quality is a kind of: parental quality ( what does parental quality stand for? )
Attribute(s): paternal ( what does paternal stand for? )

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