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Noun: fatherliness  faa-dhu(r)-lee-nus
  1. The benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father
    "the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears";
    - paternal quality

See also: paternal

Type of: parental quality

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Father of the Submarine
father surrogate
father-figure
Father-God
fatherhood
Fatherhood
father-in-law
fatherland
fatherless
fatherlike
fatherliness
fatherly
Father's Day
fathom
fathomable
fathometer
fathomless
fatidic
fatidical
fatigability
fatigable